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New Regime (new + regime)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	41%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%

Selected Abstracts

THE ENTERPRISE ACT:ASPECTS OF THE NEW REGIME,

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 4 2002
Derek Morris
The forthcoming Enterprise Act makes the Competition Commission (CC) determinative in relation to merger and market inquiries. It also introduces new competition-based tests, the rationale for which is examined. Several procedural aspects of the new regime are explored, in particular the need for economic guidance to be published on the application of the new tests. A number of key economic considerations are then examined, including market definition, oligopoly pricing, entry and the scope for different perspectives as between economic analysis and business practice. [source]

SUICIDE, RISK, AND INVESTMENT IN THE HEART OF THE AFRICAN MIRACLE

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 4 2009
JULIE LIVINGSTON
ABSTRACT This essay considers new forms of investment, risk, and self-determination, among Botswana's middle and aspirant classes, as well as the loneliness and rage that are at stake when they fail. In it, I use specific instances and more widespread talk of suicides and murder,suicides contemplated, attempted, and accomplished as a vehicle for pondering the social dimensions of investment, and the perils of secrecy and the loneliness that shadow it. Amid a new regime of risk, investment, and self-determination brought by discontinuities of economic boom and widespread AIDS death over the past decade, Batswana are facing new questions about how to invest in relationships, selves, and futures. The essay concludes with a radically different context, a cancer ward, where Batswana seek to exile suicide and nihilism from the beds, minds, and hearts of patients through processes of socialization and paternalism that deny self-determination, while at the same time questing for and demanding investment in high-tech biomedicine. [source]

THE ENTERPRISE ACT:ASPECTS OF THE NEW REGIME,

Learning and re-learning regime support: The dynamics of post-communist regimes

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2002
William Mishler
The political support of citizens of new democracies reflects two sets of experiences. Initially, people are socialized into an undemocratic regime; then, they must re-learn political support in relation to a new regime. In an established democracy, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of early socialization and current performance because both refer to the same regime. However, this is both possible and necessary in countries where there has been a change in regime. Critical questions then arise: When, whether and how do citizens determine their support for their new regime? At the start of a new regime past socialization should be more important but, after a few years, current performance should become more important. We draw on 47 Barometer surveys between 1991 and 1998 in ten more or less democratic post-communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to test the relative importance of early socialization influences, the legacy of the communist past, and the political and economic performance of new regimes. We find that economic and political performance explains the most variance in support and, secondarily, the communist legacy. Early socialization is insignificant. However, contrary to economic theories of voting, the impact of political performance is greater than the impact of economic performance in post-communist countries , and its impact is increasing. [source]

The restructuring and privatisation of British Rail: was it really that bad?

FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2002
Michael G. Pollitt
Abstract This paper uses a social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) framework to assess whether rail privatisation in Britain has produced savings in operating costs. The paper shows that major efficiencies have been achieved and consumers have benefited through lower prices, whilst the increased government subsidy has been largely recouped through privatisation proceeds. We also find that output quality is no lower (and is probably better) than under the counterfactual scenario of public ownership (pre-Hatfield). The achievement of further savings is key to delivering improved rail services in the future. This paper finds that a privatised structure, where shareholders demand a return on their investment, has led to significant improvements in operating efficiency. It remains to be seen whether the new regime, with a not-for-profit infrastructure owner, will deliver the same efficiency improvements. [source]

The effects of water-level manipulation on the benthic invertebrates of a managed reservoir

FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, Issue 5 2010
DANIEL C. McEWEN
Summary 1. Reservoir creation and management can enhance many ecological services provided by freshwater ecosystems, but may alter the natural conditions to which aquatic biota have adapted. Benthic macroinvertebrates often reflect environmental conditions, and this community may be particularly susceptible to water-level changes that alter sediment exposure, temperature regime, wave-induced sediment redistribution and basal productivity. 2. Using a before,after control,impact experimental design, we assessed changes in macroinvertebrate community structure corresponding with changes in water-level management in two lentic systems in the Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, U.S.A. Littoral zone (depths 1,5 m) benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were sampled in Rainy Lake (control system) and Namakan Reservoir (impact system) in 1984,85, and again in 2004,05 following a change in water-level management that began in January 2000. The new regime reduced the magnitude of winter drawdown in Namakan Reservoir from 2.5 to 1.5 m, and allowed the reservoir to fill to capacity in late May, a month earlier than under the prior regime. Rainy Lake water levels were not altered substantially. 3. We found changes in macroinvertebrate community structure in Namakan Reservoir relative to Rainy Lake at 1,2 m depths but not at 3,5 m depths. These shallower depths would have been most directly affected by changes in sediment exposure and ice formation. 4. In 2004,05, Namakan Reservoir benthos showed lower overall abundance, more large-bodied taxa and an increase in non-insect invertebrates relative to 1984,85, without corresponding changes in Rainy Lake. 5. Changes in the benthic community in Namakan may reflect cooler water in spring and early summer as well as lower resource availability (both autochthonous production and allochthonous inputs) under the new regime. [source]

The Renegade in German Exile Literature

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 1 2001
Malcolm Humble
The article outlines the process by which several exile writers came to terms with the realisation that the response of the writing community to the Nazi takeover was by no means unanimous. It focuses in particular on the reactions of exiles in criticism, prose fiction and poetry to what was perceived as renegade behaviour by Gottfried Benn and Gerhart Hauptmann, before briefly considering the less well known but equally symptomatic cases of Max Barthel, Ernst Glaeser and Josef Ponten. It then looks at Paul Zech's attempt in his novel Deutschland, dein Tänzer ist der Tod (published 1980, but written during the thirties) to place Ponten and others in the context of a broader view of the literary landscape which included those who remained in Germany and made differing accommodations to the new regime, as well as those emigrants whose work had not (yet) been devoted to the anti-Fascist cause. [source]

State Fiscal Responses to Welfare Reform during Recessions: Lessons for the Future

PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE, Issue 3 2003
Howard Chernick
The 1996 welfare reform transformed open-ended matching grants to states to fixed block grants. This article considers whether, given the new regime, states will be able and willing to meet the need for public assistance during recessions. The accumulation of large balances of unspent federal welfare funds helped states weather the first year or so of the current recession without having to cut programs for needy families. While new fiscal rules promoted positive reform during a period of economic prosperity, they may be leaving states and their most vulnerable citizens at serious risk as the economic and fiscal slowdown continues. [source]

Contractual Limitations on the Auditor's Liability: An Uneasy Combination of Law and Accounting

THE MODERN LAW REVIEW, Issue 4 2009
Article first published online: 1 JUL 200, P. E. Morris
Operative as from 6 April 2008, sections 532,538 of the Companies Act 2006 create a new liability limitation regime in contractual relationships between audit firms and companies in relation to the statutory audit function which overturns an almost eighty years old fundamental principle of company law. This new regime is the product of continuing pressure by the audit profession for liability reform and concern by Government regarding the market structure for audit services. This commentary critically evaluates the regime from law and accounting perspectives. It concludes by reflecting on its longer term implications for audit quality, perceptions of the audit profession and the evolution of a future research agenda. [source]

Colonial Crisis and Spanish Diplomacy in the Caribbean During the Sexenio Revolucionario, 1868,1874

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2009
AGUSTÍN S. ANDRÉS
During the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was the stage for a complex geopolitical confrontation involving the United States, Spain, Great Britain, and France. The precarious balance of powers in that region was upset by the outbreak of the Cuban crisis in 1868 and by the dawn of the period of severe instability in Spain following the overthrow of Isabel II and the onset of the reformist period characterised by the Sexenio Revolucionario. The Cuban crisis strongly constrained the foreign policy of the new regime in Spain and turned the Caribbean Basin into a zone of vital interest for Spanish diplomacy. [source]

Learning and re-learning regime support: The dynamics of post-communist regimes

Failure of Helicobacter pylori Treatment After Regimes Containing Clarithromycin: New Practical Therapeutic Options

HELICOBACTER, Issue 6 2008
Bruno Sanches
Abstract Failure of Helicobacter pylori treatment is a growing problem in daily practice. Aim:, To evaluate the efficacy of two new regimes as second-line options in a randomized and prospective study. Methods:, Patients in whom a first eradication regime containing clarithromycin had failed were included. After performing gastroscopy and a 13C-urea breath test (UBT), the patients were randomized to receive a combination of 20 mg of rabeprazole, 500 mg of levofloxacin, and 200 mg (two tablets) of furazolidone administered once daily for 10 days (RLF) or the combination of 20 mg of rabeprazole, 120 mg (two tablets) of bismuth subcitrate, 100 mg of doxycycline, and 200 mg of furazolidone, administered twice daily for 10 days (RBDF). Clinical examinations and new UBT were performed 60 days after therapy. Results:, Sixty patients were included (mean age, 46 years, 57% females). Two patients were excluded: one because of adverse effects and another as a result of protocol violation. Compliance was similar in both groups (90% took all medications correctly). Side-effects (96% mild) were observed in 87% of the patients and were comparable between groups, except diarrhea, which was more frequent in group RLF (p= .025). Intention-to-treat cure rates were 77% (95% confidence interval (CI): 62,93%) in the RLF group and 83% (95% CI: 68,97%) in the RBDF group (p= .750). Per-protocol cure rates were 80% (95% CI: 65,95%) in the RLF group and 82% (95% CI: 67,96%) in the RBDF group (p= 1.0). Conclusions:, Both once-daily triple (rabeprazole, levofloxacin, and furazolidone) and twice-daily quadruple therapy (rabeprazole, bismuth subcitrate, doxycycline, and furazolidone) for 10 days achieved encouraging results. Subsequent studies should be performed to evaluate antibiotic resistance, doses, dosing intervals, duration of treatment, and safety of these two regimes. [source]