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Developing An Agile It Capability Accompanying Business's Fast GrowingA Case Study On A Chinese E-Commerce Company

IT capability is critical significant to build enterprise agility and promote organizational performance. However, IT capability is always treated as the causal factor already existing and there are few studies on how IT capability is developed. To address this research question, we choose M company, one of the largest fast growing entrepreneurial e-commerce enterprise in China, and conduct a single case study to analyze how IT capability is formed accompanying business’s fast growing. We find that M company has designed and implemented many specific mechanisms in order to tackle the problems caused by business’s fast growing. For a specific problem, what M company has done could be categorized into three periods, respectively pre-event, during-the-event and post-event. M company has obtained an agile IT capability composed of scientific planning capability, improvisation capability and timely feedback capability in the three periods individually by tackling different problems flexibly. We also summarize a process model to illustrate the approach of how IT capability is formed. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.
Constant electrical resistivity of Ni along the melting boundary up to 9 GPa

Characterization of transport properties of liquid Ni at high pressures has important geophysical implications for terrestrial planetary interiors, because Ni is a close electronic analogue of Fe and it is also integral to Earth's core. We report measurements of the electrical resistivity of solid and liquid Ni at pressures 3–9 GPa using a 3000 t multianvil large volume press. A four‐wire method, in conjunction with a rapid acquisition meter and polarity switch, was used to overcome experimental challenges such as melt containment and maintaining sample geometry and to mitigate the extreme reactivity/solubility of liquid Ni with most thermocouple and electrode materials. Thermal conductivity is calculated using the Wiedemann‐Franz law. Electrical resistivity of solid Ni exhibits the expected P dependence and is consistent with earlier experimental values. Within experimental uncertainties, our results indicate that resistivity of liquid Ni remains invariant along the P‐dependent melting boundary, which is in disagreement with earlier prediction for liquid transition metals. The potential reasons for such behavior are examined qualitatively through the impact of P‐independent local short‐range ordering on electron mean free path and the possibility of constant Fermi surface at the onset of Ni melting. Correlation among metals obeying the Kadowaki‐Woods ratio and the group of late transition metals with unfilled d‐electron band displaying anomalously shallow melting curves suggests that on the melting boundary, Fe may exhibit the same resistivity behavior as Ni. This could have important implications for the heat flow in the Earth's core.
High‐speed solar wind stream effects on the topside ionosphere over Arecibo: A case study during solar minimum

The impact of a high‐speed solar wind stream (HSS) on the topside near‐equatorial ionosphere (Arecibo: 28.17°N, L = 1.3) is investigated for the first time. Although the HSS did not lead to any significant geomagnetic storm activity, the ionosphere over Arecibo became hotter and expanded significantly in altitude as compared to a non‐HSS interval. The O+/H+ transition height hT increased by ~200 km in the daytime and by ~100 km at night. At the hT, the peak ionospheric electron and ion temperatures increased by ~200–500 K during day and by ~50–70 K at night. While the O+ ion concentration exhibited an overall enhancement, deep penetration of the H+ ions below hT are observed during the day. The noontime peak electron density was ~4 times higher during the HSS event compared to the non‐HSS interval. We present three possible mechanisms to explain this topside ionospheric heating.
Rôle des ciliés dans le cycle de la vie pélagique en Méditerranée

A 1' occasion des etudes hydrographiques et planctonologiques sui vies depuis I 960 dans la zone cotiere comprise entre l'Ebre et Castellon (Mediterranee occidentale) on a reuni des donnees qui confirment ! 'importance des cities dans la composition et l'activite du plancton. On a recense les cilies dans 413 echantillons de IOO ml d'eau, etudies avec le microscope d'Utermohl, apres sedimentation. Les echantillons d'eau doivent etre fixes immediatement et de fa<;on convenable, autrement une partie des especes, petites et deli cates, cesse d' etre reconnaissable, et les cilies risquent d'etre pris pour de petits amas de debris. Plus du 90% des cilies sont des oligotriches. Les tintinniens pourvus d'une lorica, qu'on prend en partie au filet fin et qu'on identifie plus volontiers, ne representent que 5 %, en moyenne et approximativement, du total. La plupart des cilies sont petits (Io a 30 fL) et appartiennent a des especes nues. C'est un vrai nannoplancton animal qui echappe au filet. I1 faut done souligner, une fois de plus, que les possibilites du filet sont plutot restreintes pour une etude globale du plancton, meme pour une etude globale du zooplancton. Une evaluation minimale de la densite moyenne des populations de cilies est de 894 cellules par litre; les densites les plus petites sont de 1' ordre de 5o par litre et les maxima de I 2 ooo par litre. Les echantillons etudies, d'apres la densite de leur population, se distribuent de cette fa<;on : Cel! u! es par litre Nombre d' echanti! ons
The Scholarly Commons The Scholarly Commons

Abstract The rapid increase in transaction-based e-services creates a challenge for firms: What combination of features should they offer to satisfy consumers while realistically considering operational and financial constraints? This article explores the above question by highlighting similarities and differences in consumer preferences between different segments for a transaction-based e-service. The study employs a Web-based discrete choice experiment, in which 1,430 consumers are offered e-service options, differing from each other in terms of non-web-based and online-only features, price per transaction, and marketing promotions. The results demonstrate that overall, consumer preferences for features of transaction-based e-services differ between offline and online consumers. Furthermore, with increase in consumer usage frequency, interesting trends regarding the relative importance for features are observed. Similarities also exist in consumer preferences between various usage-frequency-based consumer segments. The authors believe that these results have both managerial and research implications for design and operations strategy formulation for transaction-based e-services.
The Effect of Acute Knee Injuries and Related Knee Surgery on Serum Levels of Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Lipid Mediators and Their Associations With Knee Symptoms

Background: Despite an acute knee injury being a major risk factor for osteoarthritis, the factors that initiate and maintain this risk of longer-term knee symptoms are poorly understood. Bioactive lipids derived from omega-3 and -6 polyunsaturated fatty acids have key roles in the regulation of the inflammatory response and have been linked to joint damage and osteoarthritis pain in translational models. Hypothesis: There would be associations between systemic levels of bioactive lipids and knee symptoms longitudinally after an acute knee injury and related knee surgery. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: This study analyzed a subset of young, active adults who had sustained an acute knee injury (recruited via a surgical care pathway) and healthy age- and sex-matched controls. Surgery, if performed, was conducted after the baseline serum sample was taken and before the 3-month and 2-year visits. Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry of 41 bioactive lipids was carried out in sera of (1) 47 injured participants (median age, 28 years) collected at baseline (median, 24 days after injury), 3 months, and 2 years, along with the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, and (2) age- and sex-matched controls. Results: Levels of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (P≤ .0001) and docosahexaenoic acid (P≤ .0001) and the pro-resolving lipid mediators 17– and 14–hydroxydocosahexaenoic acid, and 18-hydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid were all significantly greater at baseline in injured participants compared with the later time points and also higher than in healthy controls (P = .0019 and P≤ .0001, respectively). Levels of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins E2 and D2, leukotriene B4, and thromboxane B2 were significantly lower at baseline compared with the later time points. Higher levels of 8,9–, 11,12–, and 14,15–dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acid (DHET) were cross-sectionally associated with more severe knee pain/symptoms according to the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score at 2 years (P = .0004, R2 = 0.251; P = .0002, R2 = 0.278; and P = .0012, R2 = 0.214, respectively). Conclusion: The profile of pro-resolving versus pro-inflammatory lipids at baseline suggests an initial activation of pro-resolution pathways, followed by the later activation of pro-inflammatory pathways. Clinical Relevance: In this largely surgically managed cohort, the association of soluble epoxide hydrolase metabolites, the DHETs, with more severe knee symptoms at 2 years provides a rationale for further investigation into the role of this pathway in persisting knee symptoms in this population, including potential therapeutic strategies.
Shelf and Coastal Ocean Observing and Modeling Systems: A New Frontier in Operational Oceanography

One of the new frontiers in operational oceanography includes progress in observing and modeling the coastal ocean. In addition to this, it is becoming increasingly important to bring operational oceanographic data to industry in a usable format. We use the case study of Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and its application to the East Australian Current to introduce some of the latest ideas about shelf and coastal ocean observing and modeling, and its applications to operational oceanography.
Developing interventions to improve detection of depression in primary healthcare settings in rural Ethiopia

Background The poor detection of depression in primary healthcare (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries continues to threaten the plan to scale up mental healthcare coverage. Aims To describe the process followed to develop an intervention package to improve detection of depression in PHC settings in rural Ethiopia. Method The study was conducted in Sodo, a rural district in south Ethiopia. The Medical Research Council's framework for the development of complex interventions was followed. Qualitative interviews, observations of provider–patient communication, intervention development workshops and pre-testing of the screening component of the intervention were conducted to develop the intervention. Results A multicomponent intervention package was developed, which included (a) manual-based training of PHC workers for 10 days, adapted from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide, with emphasis on depression, locally identified depressive symptoms, communication skills, training by people with lived experience and active learning methods; (b) screening for culturally salient manifestations of depression, using a four-item tool; (c) raising awareness among people attending out-patient clinics about depression, using information leaflets and health education; and (d) system-level interventions, such as supportive supervision, use of posters at health facilities and a decision support mobile app. Conclusions This contextualised, multicomponent intervention package may lead to meaningful impact on the detection of depression in PHC in rural Ethiopia and similar settings. The intervention will be pilot tested for feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness before its wider implementation.
Modeling Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Heat Island Mitigation on Boundary Layer Meteorology and Air Quality in Beijing Under Different Weather Conditions

Beijing has experienced a rapid urbanization in the last few decades and has been suffering from serious air pollution during recent years. The Weather Research and Forecasting‐Chem model is used to quantify the effects of urbanization on regional climate and air quality and those of urban heat island (UHI) mitigation strategy on urban air quality in Beijing, with a special focus on the impacts under different weather conditions (heat waves in summer and polluted days in winter). The modification of rural land use into urban impervious surface significantly increases 2‐m temperature (T2) and planetary boundary layer height but decreases 2‐m relative humidity (RH2) and 10‐m wind speed (WS10) in urban Beijing, which further leads to the increases in surface‐layer O3 concentrations of 9.5 ppbv in summer and 1.8 ppbv in winter and the decreases in PM2.5 concentrations of 16.6 μg m−3 in summer and 26.2 μg m−3 in winter. Compared with normal days (clean days), the UHI intensity is enhanced by 11.1% during heat waves in summer (by 16.7% during polluted days in winter). Although increasing urban albedo is an effective mitigation strategy to decrease UHI intensity, it worsens the urban air quality. When the urban albedo increases from 0.2 to 0.85, the daily average PM2.5 concentrations are increased by 10.2 (6.1) μg m−3 in summer (in winter), and the daily maximum O3 concentrations are increased by 12.8 ppbv under heat waves in summer.
Validation of satellite soil moisture in the absence of in situ soil moisture: the case of the Tropical Yankin Basin

Soil moisture is known to be important in hydrology, agronomy, flood and drought forecasting. Acquisition of in situ soil moisture data is time consuming, costly, and does not cover the scale required for basin analysis. The consideration of remotely-sensed soil moisture is therefore promising. However, considering the limitations of satellite data, there is a need to check their validity prior to their utilization for impact studies. This, in turn, poses a problem in the absence of in situ soil moisture. The present study suggests a methodology for testing the validity of remotely-sensed soil moisture without in situ soil moisture. Hydrological models with a detailed soil moisture routine are calibrated and validated with measured stream flows. Simulated soil moisture data of the most behavioural solutions from the models are averaged, and then used as proxy measurements. This methodology was applied to the Yankin Basin (8,171 Km 2 ), a tributary of the Niger River Basin. The soil moisture of three hydrological models (UHP-HRU, SWAT and WaSiM) used as proxy was compared with the daily ESA-CCI soil moisture for a four year period (2005-2008). The coefficient of determination (R 2 ), bias and visual inspection were used as quality criteria. A rather small bias ranging from -0.01cm 3 /cm 3 (SWAT & UHP-HRU) to -0.04cm 3 /cm 3 (WaSiM &UHP-HRU) was determined as well as good R 2 varying between 0.71 (SWAT & UHP-HRU) and 0.81 (WaSiM & SWAT & UHP-HRU). The ESA-CCI soil moisture was therefore judged as reliable for the study area.
Evaluation of a long day care intervention targeting the mealtime environment and curriculum to increase children’s vegetable intake: a cluster randomised controlled trial using the multiphase optimisation strategy framework

Objective: To determine the reach, adoption, implementation and effectiveness of an intervention to increase children’s vegetable intake in long day care (LDC). Design: A 12-week pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial, informed by the multiphase optimisation strategy (MOST), targeting the mealtime environment and curriculum. Children’s vegetable intake and variety was measured at follow-up using a modified Short Food Survey for early childhood education and care and analysed using a two-part mixed model for non-vegetable and vegetable consumers. Outcome measures were based on the RE-AIM framework. Setting: Australian LDC centres. Participants: Thirty-nine centres, 120 educators and 719 children at follow-up. Results: There was no difference between intervention and waitlist control groups in the likelihood of consuming any vegetables when compared with non-vegetable consumers for intake (OR = 0·70, (95 % CI 0·34–1·43), P = 0·32) or variety (OR = 0·73 (95 % CI 0·40–1·32), P = 0·29). Among vegetable consumers (n 652), there was no difference between groups in vegetable variety (exp(b): 1·07 (95 % CI:0·88–1·32, P = 0·49) or vegetable intake (exp(b): 1·06 (95 % CI: 0·78, 1·43)), P = 0·71) with an average of 1·51 (95 % CI 1·20–1·82) and 1·40 (95 % CI 1·08–1·72) serves of vegetables per day in the intervention and control group, respectively. Intervention educators reported higher skills for promoting vegetables at mealtimes, and knowledge and skills for teaching the curriculum, than control (all P < 0·001). Intervention fidelity was moderate (n 16/20 and n 15/16 centres used the Mealtime environment and Curriculum, respectively) with good acceptability among educators. The intervention reached 307/8556 centres nationally and was adopted by 22 % eligible centres. Conclusions: The pragmatic self-delivered online intervention positively impacted educator’s knowledge and skills and was considered acceptable and feasible. Intervention adaptations, using the MOST cyclic approach, could improve intervention impact on children’ vegetable intake.
Western North Pacific anticyclone change associated with the El Niño–Indian Ocean Dipole coupling

It is known that the lower‐tropospheric anomalous anticyclone over the western North Pacific (WNPAC) is strongly influenced by the sea surface temperature (SST) variations in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. In this study, we re‐examine a role of the dominant inter‐annual SST variability in the Indian Ocean basin (represented by the Indian Ocean Dipole [IOD]) in the formation and development of the WNPAC during El Niño. Regardless of the data sets obtained from observations and long‐term (1,300 years) model simulations, it is found that the WNPAC is strongly developed with larger circulation intensities when El Niño co‐occurs with a positive phase of IOD (i.e., El Niño–IOD coupling), whereas it is weakly developed when El Niño solely occurs (i.e., El Niño–IOD decoupling). Sensitivities computed by ratios of the WNPAC intensities to the El Niño intensities from the three cases of El Niño–IOD coupling strengths further capture the aforementioned changes, supporting the idea that the IOD has an active role in modulating the WNPAC intensity during its development phase in a co‐operation with the known El Niño‐related processes that drive the WNPAC. Additional analyses suggest that the pronounced atmospheric convection anomalies occurring over the western Indian Ocean during the WNPAC development season, which are only manifested in the El Niño–IOD coupled cases, may play an essential role for the WNPAC intensity modulation by concurrently enhancing the subsidence anomalies over the western Pacific including the Maritime Continent through a change in the tropical Walker circulation.
Unilateral Steps to End High Seas Fishing

In discussions about the overexploitation of the vast oceans that lie beyond national jurisdiction, one bold proposal is to close fishing entirely on the high seas. Existing research suggests that converting the high seas into a giant reserve for fish might increase overall global fish catches by boosting fish catches within the adjoining areas of the oceans under national control. This conversion also might help to protect marine biological diversity, which is particularly important in an era of climate change. This Essay identifies the potential that the United States—a significant importer of high seas fish—might unilaterally take steps to end fishing on the high seas, using its market leverage. This Essay then analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of taking unilateral steps to end fishing on the high seas and the conditions under which the United States might take such steps.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Clade 2.3.4.4b in Domestic Ducks, Indonesia, 2022

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3. 4.4b viruses were isolated from domestic ducks in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, during April 2022. The viruses were genetically similar to those detected in East Asia during 2021–2022. Molecular surveillance of wild birds is needed to detect potential pandemic threats from avian influenza virus.
Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in patients with chronic intestinal failure

Background. Patients with chronic intestinal failure are treated primarily with parenteral nutrition, often for many years. If serious complications arise in connection with intravenous nutritional therapy, intestinal and multivisceral transplantation can be considered. We have established a collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, USA, to provide an option for Norwegian patients with chronic intestinal failure.
When No Law is Better than a Good Law

This paper argues, both theoretically and empirically, that sometimes no securities law may be better than a good securities law that is not enforced. The first part of the paper formalizes the sufficient conditions under which this happens for any law. The second part of the paper shows that a specific securities law - the law prohibiting insider trading - may satisfy these conditions. The third part of the paper takes this prediction to the data. We find that the cost of equity actually rises when some countries enact an insider trading law, but do not enforce it.
Current Draft : September 22 , 2003 First Draft : April , 2002 Comments welcome To Steal or Not to Steal : Firm Attributes , Legal Environment , and Valuation

Newly released data on corporate governance and disclosure practices reveal wide within-country variation, with the variation increasing as legal environment gets less investor-friendly. This paper examines why firms practice high-quality governance when law does not require it; firm attributes related to the quality of governance; how the attributes interact with legal environment; and the relation between firm valuation and corporate governance. A simple model, in which a controlling shareholder trades off private benefits of diversion against costs that vary across countries, identifies three relevant firm attributes: investment opportunities, external financing, and ownership structure. Using firm-level governance and transparency data on 859 firms in 27 countries, we find that firms with greater growth opportunities, greater needs for external financing, and more concentrated cash flow rights practice higher-quality governance and disclose more. Moreover, firms that score higher in governance and transparency rankings are valued higher in the stock market. Equally important, all these relations are stronger in countries that are less investor-friendly, demonstrating that firms do adapt to poor legal environments to establish efficient governance practices.