The Redistribution of Property Rights, Corporate Governance and Company Restructuring after Privatisation"

The project covered the main issues of privatisation, corporate governance and company restructuring after privatisation in Hungary and in the Russian Republic, together with a summary of the broader picture of company-level changes in Central and Eastern Europe, discussing the issues of micro-financial restructuring in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two countries selected as the focus of research can be regarded as the two most widely differing cases of the economic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Hungary began its transition very early in 1989, while Russia was very late in doing so. Hungary first implemented a series of institutional and systemic reforms before stabilising its public finances, while Russia has struggled with financial stabilisation for years without great success. Company restructuring and the introduction of new forms of governance only began in Russia in the mid-1990s. Hungary opted for "traditional" western methods of privatisation and invited a large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) while in Russia the bulk of state-owned property was privatised either by free distribution or by a strange blend of ESOP-MBO schemes. FDI in Russia remained modest because of the high risk and uncertainty surrounding economic transactions there. Hungary was a forerunner in privatising public utilities, while Russia has moved cautiously in this area. The group's studies show that the Hungarian economy is now over the "transformation recession" and its economic success is largely due to its successful privatisation and to the dominant participation of foreign investors in company take-overs and in the restructuring process. The study of Russia provides a comprehensive account of the main factors in the so-far modest results in Russian privatisation and economic transformation.

The Composition of Holocene Aeolianites; Western Eyre Peninsula, Great Australian Bight, South Australia

The Australian southern continental margin is the world’s largest site of cool-water carbonate deposition, and the Great Australian Bight is its largest sector. The Eyre Peninsula is fringed by coastal beaches with aeolianites and marks the eastern edge of the Great Australian Bight. Five shoreline transects of varying lengths spanned a 150km longitudinal distance and at each the intertidal, beach, dune and secondary dune environments were sampled, for a total of 18 samples. Sediments are a mixture of modern, relict, and Cenozoic carbonates, and quartz grains. Carbonate aeolianites on the western Eyre Peninsula are mostly composed of modern carbonate grains: predominantly molluscs (23-33%) and benthic foraminifera (10-26%), locally abundant coralline algae (3-28%), echinoids (2-22%), and bryozoans (2-14%). Cenozoic grain abundance ranges from 1-6% whereas relict grain abundance ranges from 0-17%. A southward increase in bryozoan particles correlates with a nutrient element abundance and decrease in temperature due to a large seasonal coastal upwelling system that drives 2-3 major upwelling events per year, bringing cold, nutrient rich, Sub-Antarctic Surface Water (<12°C) onto the shelf. In southern, mostly wind protected locations, the beach and dune sediment compositions are similar, indicating that wind energy has successfully carried all sediment components of the beach into the adjacent dunes. In northern, exposed locations, the composition is not the same everywhere, and trends indicate that relative wind energy has the ability to impact grain composition through preferential wind transport. Aeolianite composition is therefore a function of both upwelling and the degree of coastal exposure.

"Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-Road," (to connect Pittsburg with the great west.) : report to the president and directors of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-Road Company /

Mode of access: Internet.

Appletons' hand-book of American travel, western tour : embracing eighteen through routes to the west and far west, tours of the Great Lakes and rivers, and all local routes of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, California, and Oregon, and territories of Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Alaska.

Includes index.

The major range problems and their solution, résumé of a report prepared in response to Senate resolution 29, together with letters of transmittal, table of contents, etc., from "The western range,a great but neglected natural resource,"

Mode of access: Internet.

The great war and the R.A.M.C.,

"Narrative of the doings of the Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front during the first two months of the Great War."--p. vii.

The Great Company, 1667-1871 : being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay : compiled from the Company's archives, from diplomatic documents and state papers of France and England, from the narratives of factors and traders, and from many accounts and memoirs /

Master microform held by: ResP.

The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:

Contains bibliographies.

THE WESTERN OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY, FIRST MORTGAGE FIVE PER CENT. GOLD BONDS

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the American Sugar Refining Company.

Reports for 1915-<1958> have title: Annual report.

Military history (Michigan boys) Company "D", 66th Illinois : Birge's Western Sharpshooters in the Civil War, 1861-1865 /

"Ren" Barker, historian, served in Company "D".

The western practical arithmetic ... containing a great variety of exercises, particularly adapted to the currency of the United States. With an appendix: containing the canceling system, abbreviations in multiplication, mensuration, and the roots. Designed for the use of schools and private students.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Wit's miscellany, or A companion for the choice spirits; consisting of a great variety of odd and uncommon epigrams, facetious drolleries, whimsical mottos, merry tales, fables, &c. All calculated for the entertainment and diversion of good company, and to pass a winter-evening in mirth and good humour.

Latin and English.