Family Business Restructuring:A Review and Research Agenda

Although business restructuring occurs frequently and it is important for the prosperity of family firms across generations, research on family firms has largely evolved separately from research on business restructuring. This is a missed opportunity, since the two domains are complementary, and understanding the context, process, content, and outcome dimensions is relevant to both research streams. We address this by examining the intersection between research on business restructuring and family firms to improve our knowledge of each area and inform future research. To achieve this goal, we review and organize research across different dimensions to create an integrative framework. Building on current research, we focus on 88 studies at the intersection of family firm and business restructuring research to develop a model that identifies research needs and suggests directions for future research

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Making Way in Corpus-based Intepreting Studies

The idea of editing a volume entirely focused on corpus-based interpreting studies was first discussed following the First Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based interpreting studies: The State of the Art which was held at the Forlì Campus of the University of Bologna on May 7th and 8th 2015. This event gathered more than 100 scholars from different parts of the world with the aim of sharing their corpus-based research endeavors, ranging from studies that exploited fully machine-readable corpora to small collections of texts or transcripts for manual analysis. This volume serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, it aims at promoting the understanding of the interpretation process and product based not on anecdotal observations or small-size case-studies, but on comparatively large datasets of professional interpretations mostly stored and queried according to standard corpus linguistics methodologies. The volume showcases descriptions of and studies on major interpreting corpora available to date: the EPIC Corpus and its off-springs EPTIC (including also translations) developed at the University of Bologna, EPICG from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and the TIC Corpus from the University of Poznán (Poland); the 2249i Corpus, the DIRSI Corpus and the IMITES Corpus, again from the University of Bologna (Italy); the CorIT Corpus from the University of Trieste (Italy); the FOOTIE Corpus created at UNINT University in Rome (Italy); the NAIST Corpus from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) and the CEIPPC Corpus, which was built at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China). On the other hand, the volume is also intended as a renewed call (after Miriam Shlesinger’s first call in 1998) to the research community to further develop the field of corpus-based interpreting studies by offering scholars more corpus-based data and methodologies to compile their own corpora according to their research designs

Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure

This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting, facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on the various parameters, such as information structure, that have a special tie with clause combination. Most of the papers are centred around subordination as a grammatical structure and its status in a discourse. With a few notable exceptions, subordination has been thought of as part of the discursive background. This volume adduces convincing evidence from the field of deictic/anaphoric items, information structure and rhetorical structure in favour of a more nuanced approach to the status of subordination in discourse. It also illustrates how rhetorical patterns in discourse give rise, through a grammaticalisation process, to new interclausal dependencies

Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure

This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting, facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on the various parameters, such as information structure, that have a special tie with clause combination. Most of the papers are centred around subordination as a grammatical structure and its status in a discourse. With a few notable exceptions, subordination has been thought of as part of the discursive background. This volume adduces convincing evidence from the field of deictic/anaphoric items, information structure and rhetorical structure in favour of a more nuanced approach to the status of subordination in discourse. It also illustrates how rhetorical patterns in discourse give rise, through a grammaticalisation process, to new interclausal dependencies

Friction stir overlap welding of 2124 Aluminium plate

In this ongoing investigation, experimental results of friction stir welding (FSW) applied to highthickness 2124 aerospace aluminium alloy are discussed. Flanges of 30 mm high are produced onto a44 mm thick plate by two consecutive overlap welds in this non-fusion weldable material, followed by a finalmilling step. This approach results in significant material savings compared to the conventional productionroute, which consists of milling out the entire part starting from a high-thickness plate. Furthermore, theflanges built up by FSW consist fully of fine-grained material. Due to the nature of the processing route, thenugget zone of the first weld pass is partially reheated by the second weld pass. The influence of parentmaterial temper (i.e., T851 or T4) on friction stir welding characteristics is studied; it is noted that in T4temper, a significant increase in welding speed can be obtained compared to T851. The softer T4 temperalso causes less danger of tool fracture, which allows incorporating more features to the pin and shoulderof the tool. During this investigation, the emphasis is put on microstructural characterisation andmicrohardness testing of various zones in the weld.</jats:p

Building Interpreting and Intermodal Corpora: A How to for a Formidable Task

This contribution has a double aim. On the one hand, it highlights the various challenges and problems compilers of (simultaneous) interpreting and intermodal corpora are likely to face, and the solutions that were found and applied in three corpora of European Parliament plenary debates, i.e. EPIC, EPICG and EPTIC. On the other, it provides an accessible step-by-step guide for corpus developers who are working with European Parliament data, with the ultimate aim of bringing as far as possible into line the procedures used to transcribe the audio tracks, record metadata, annotate texts with part-of-speech and lemma information, perform text-to-text and text-to-audio/video alignment, and index the corpus for searching with appropriate corpus query tools. By adopting shared corpus building methods, it might be possible to leverage the substantial efforts already deployed by different research groups, and encourage others to take charge of new language pairs. This, we shall argue, might lead to a massively multilingual interpreting and intermodal corpus, through a distributed community effort