1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298329703321

Titolo

Digenetic Trematodes / / edited by Rafael Toledo, Bernard Fried

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4939-0915-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, , 0065-2598 ; ; 766

Disciplina

616.96

Soggetti

Parasitology

Immunology

Medical microbiology

Vaccines

Medical Microbiology

Vaccine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Form and Function in the Digenea -- The Systematics of the Trematoda -- Schistosomiasis -- Fascioliasis -- Paragonimiasis -- Liver Flukes -- Intestinal Trematode Infections -- Epidemiology of Trematode Infections -- Diagnosis of Human Trematode Infections -- Schistosomatidae and Diplostomidea -- Amphistomes -- Dicrocoeliidae Family -- Selected Wildlife Trematodiasis.

Sommario/riassunto

Digenetic trematodes constitute a major helminth group that parasitize humans and animals, and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The diseases caused by trematodes have been neglected for years, especially as compared with other parasitic diseases. However, the geographical limits and the populations at risk are currently expanding and changing in relation to factors such as growing international markets, improved transportation systems, and demographic changes. This has led to a growing international interest in trematode infections, although factors such as the difficulties entailed in the diagnosis, the complexity of human and agricultural practices, the lack of assessments of the economic costs, or the limited number of effective drugs are preventing the development of control measures of these



diseases in humans and livestock. In-depth studies are needed to clarify the current epidemiology of these helminth infections and to identify new and specific targets for both effective diagnosis and treatments. The main goal of this book is to present the major trematodes and their corresponding diseases in the framework of modern parasitology, considering matters such as the application of novel techniques and analysis of data in the context of host-parasite interactions and to show applications of new techniques and concepts for the studies on digenetic trematodes. This is an ideal book for parasitologists, microbiologists, zoologists, immunologists, professional of public health workers, clinicians, and graduate and post-graduate students.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956017003321

Autore

Masouros Pavlos E

Titolo

Corporate law and economic stagnation : how shareholder value and short-termism contribute to the decline of the western economies / / Pavlos E. Masouros

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague ; ; Portland, OR, : Eleven International Publishing, c2013

ISBN

9789460946486

9460946488

9781299282131

129928213X

9789460947070

9460947077

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Dovenschmidt monographs ; ; 1

Soggetti

Corporation law - Economic aspects

Stockholders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (pp. 287-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Dedication""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""TABLE OF FIGURES""; ""PREFACE"";



""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURAL PATHOLOGIES OF THE CURRENT MODEL OF CAPITALISM""; ""2. SHOULD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE BE FIXED IN THE POST-2008 WORLD?""; ""3. OUTLINE OF THE RESEARCH""; ""3.1. Outline of Chapter 1: The Great Reversal in Corporate Governance and the Great Reversal in Shareholdership""; ""3.2. Outline of Chapter 2: The Post-Keynesian Theory of the Firm""

""3.3. Outline of Chapter 3: Corporate Law and the Great Reversal in Corporate Governance""""3.4. Outline of Chapter 4: Corporate Law and the Great Reversal in Shareholdership""; ""3.5. Outline of Chapter 5: The Path Towards Long Governance""; ""4. EMBEDDING THE RESEARCH IN THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LITERATURE""; ""4.1. An Overview Of The Comparative Corporate Governance Literature ""; ""4.2. The Research's Novelties in Relation to the Existing Comparative Corporate Governance Literature""; ""Chapter 1: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY""

""1.1. THE INTELLECTUAL SUBSTRUCTURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF CAPITALISM: KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS""""1.1.1. The Keynesian Theory on Uncertainty and the Notion of Confidential Crisis""; ""1.1.2. "The Liquidity Trap""; ""1.1.3. Keynesian Fiscalism""; ""1.2. THE MACROECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOLDEN AGE: THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM""; ""1.2.1. A Legal Analysis of the Bretton Woods Agreement""; ""1.2.2. The Bretton Woods System and the Restrictions on Capital Movement""; ""1.3. THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE GOLDEN AGE: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM""

""1.3.1. The Deutsche Mark Floating and the Nixon Shock: The Fulfillment of the Triffin Dilemma Prophecy""""1.3.2. The Causality Relationship Between the Demise of Bretton Woods and the Oil Shocks of the 1970's""; ""1.3.3. Financing the Current Account Deficits: Petrodollar Recycling and Capital Account Liberalization""; ""1.4. THE MACROECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE POST-BRETTON WOODS WORLD""; ""1.4.1. The Capital Account Liberalization Movement""; ""1.4.2. The European Monetary Union and the Erga Omnes Free Movement of Capital""

""1.4.3. The Interjurisdictional Competition for Siphoning Capital to National Financial Markets""""1.5. THE INTELLECTUAL SUBSTRUCTURE OF THE POST-BRETTON WOODS WORLD: NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS""; ""1.5.1. The Antidote to the Great Stagflation: Monetarism""; ""1.5.2. The Rise of New Classical Macroeconomics""; ""1.5.3. The Basic Tenets of the Neoclassical Orthodoxy""; ""1.5.4. Neoclassical Economics and the Deregulation Movement""; ""1.5.5. A Case Study on Deregulation: The US Banking Regulation""

""1.6. THE SHIFT IN THE INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE POST-BRETTON WOODS WORLD""

Sommario/riassunto

The shift in the institutional logics of corporate governance towards shareholder value coupled with shareholdership's increasing short-termism have cumulatively contributed to the low GDP growth rates that are observed in five major Western economies (France, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, US) since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s. This book presents - through empirical data and with the help of the post-Keynesian theory of the firm - a historical causality chain: The two Great Reversals led to higher equity payout ratios and lower retention ratios in public corporations that in turn caused lower growth rates of (business) capital accumulation that in turn caused lower GDP growth rates. Corporate law has been an accomplice for the reorientation of corporate governance towards shareholder value, i.e. for the Great Reversal in Corporate Governance, and thus it indirectly shares the blame for the low rates of capital



accumulation that have thrown the five major Western economies in a stagnation mode over the past four decades.