Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of various corporate governance mechanisms such as board structure, ownership structure and debt level on the demand for better external audit quality. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 142 non-f...

International audience; Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health a...

During the two World Wars, Bartonella quintana was responsible for trench fever and is now recognised as an agent of re-emerging infection. Many reports have indicated widespread B. quintana exposure since the 1990s. In order to evaluate its prevalence in ancient popula...

<jats:p> Monte Castelo, an archeological shell mound located on the southwestern periphery of the Amazon basin, is an artificial forest island occupied from the Middle to late-Holocene, and it contains one of the longest, continuous sequences of human occupation anywher...

Tradicionalmente, en el campo del urbanismo, el término regeneración urbana refiere al proceso de producción urbana que se ha vuelto predominante en las ciudades de Europa y América del norte desde hace ya varias décadas : la implementación de grandes proyectos urbanos ...

Abstract As part of a wider study of the transfer of Lapita pottery into and within New Caledonia, we studied a sample of Lapita sherds from the site of Kurin on Mare, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. The Loyalty Islands lie between the Vanuatu island chain and the rest ...

This research note is prompted by a paper by Kashyap (Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality? Population Studies 73(1): 57-78). Kashyap's paper, which provides 40 original estimates of missing female births, relies on an alternative defin...

Cet article analyse quelques-unes des raisons pour lesquelles Boko Haram s’est avere incapable de gouverner les territoires qu’il a pu controler avant son allegeance a l’Etat islamique et son retra...

La crise securitaire qui sevit actuellement dans la region de Diffa (Niger) et singulierement dans le bassin du lac Tchad, du fait de l’insecurite causee par les islamistes de Boko Haram, a bouleve...

Iris Seri-Hersch’s book, Enseigner l’histoire a l’heure de l’ebranlement colonial. Soudan, Egypte et empire britannique (1943–1960), which very recently received the Special Arsen Djurovic Prize fo...