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THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODS

The paper deals with one of the most important issues of the organizational business strategy in companies in developing countries, running their businesses in the age of “New Economy”. The alignment of the project management methodologies, tools and techniques with company's strategy is one of highest priorities for top managers and their decisions. The survey and the analysis of the results create a basis for an insight into the conditions that are present in our practice, concerning application of the project management methodologies, especially using ICT in conducting their businesses in a sensitive economic environment, as it is in developing countries. The results of the study may help companies for appropriate business strategy development in the new business and market environment.
The role of patents filed as signals for the IPO market: An empirical comparison for the U.S and the European software industry

There is a lack of empirical literature addressing the role of patents in small software firms (Cockburn and MacGarvie, 2009). This controversial topic in innovation economics is particularly underdeveloped, primarily due to the paucity of data (Mann, 2005; Mann and Sager, 2007) and because historically software industry had a weak patent protection (Bessen and Hunt, 2007). However, literature often claims that software firms can reap indirect benefits from the patent system through the information exposed during the patenting process which is usually called ? information spillovers? (Ziedonis, 2008). In this way, ? disclosure of information? about firm? s innovativeness could help firms to attract investors reducing problems of asymmetric information and reducing risky investments.
Identification and Characterization of Three Drosophila melanogaster Glucuronyltransferases Responsible for the Synthesis of the Conserved Glycosaminoglycan-Protein Linkage Region of Proteoglycans

The Drosophila melanogaster genome contains three putative glucuronyltransferases homologous to human GlcAT-I and GlcAT-P. These enzymes are predicted to be β1,3-glucuronyltransferases involved in the synthesis of the glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-protein linkage region of proteoglycans and the HNK-1 carbohydrate epitope of glycoproteins, respectively. The genes encode active enzymes, which we have designated DmGlcAT-I, DmGlcAT-BSI, and DmGlcAT-BSII (where BS stands for “broadspecificity”). Protein A-tagged truncated soluble forms of all three enzymes efficiently transfer GlcUA from UDP-GlcUA to the linkage region trisaccharide Galβ1–3Galβ1–4Xyl. Strikingly, DmGlcAT-I has specificity for Galβ1–3Galβ1–4Xyl, whereas DmGlcAT-BSI and DmGlcAT-BSII act on a wide array of substrates with non-reducing terminal β1,3- and β1,4-linked Gal residues. Their highest activities are obtained with asialoorosomucoid with a terminal Galβ1–4GlcNAc sequence, indicating their possible involvement in the synthesis of the HNK-1 epitope in addition to the GAG-protein linkage region. Galβ1–3GlcNAc and Galβ1–3GalNAc, disaccharide structures widely found in N- andO-glycans of glycoproteins and glycolipids, also serve as acceptors for DmGlcAT-BSI and -BSII. Transcripts of all three enzymes are ubiquitously expressed throughout the developmental stages and in adult tissues of Drosophila. Thus, all three glucuronyltransferases are likely involved in the synthesis of the GAG-protein linkage region in Drosophila, and DmGlcAT-BSI and -BSII appear to be involved in various GlcUA transfer reactions for the synthesis of proteoglycans, glycoproteins, and glycolipids. This activity distinguishes these glucuronyltransferases from their mammalian homologs GlcAT-P and GlcAT-D (or -S). Sequence alignment of the Drosophila glucuronyltransferases with homologs in human, rat, and Caenorhabditis elegans demonstrates the conservation of a majority of the critical amino acid residues in the active sites of the three Drosophila enzymes.
Static Equivalent of Distribution Grids With High Penetration of PV Systems

High penetrations of photovoltaic (PV) systems within load pockets in distribution grids have changed pure consumers to prosumers. This can cause technical challenges in distribution and transmission grids, such as overvoltage and reverse power flow. Embedding voltage support schemes into PVs, such as standard ${\cos \phi (P)}$ characteristic proposed by the German grid codes, may cause more changes in the steady-state behavior of distribution grids and, in turn, the transmission side. Accordingly, it is important to properly model active distribution grids to analyze the system impacts of these changes to plan and operate future smart power grids. However, due to the high dimension of distribution grids, considering a detailed distribution grid to study the transmission side or a fraction of the distribution grid is either cumbersome or impractical. Therefore, it is required to develop a reasonable equivalent that can fairly capture the dominant behavior of the distribution grids. The aim of this paper is to use gray-box modeling concepts to develop a static equivalent of distribution grids comprising a large number of PV systems embedded with voltage support schemes. In the proposed model, the PV systems are aggregated as a separate entity, and not as a negative load, which is traditionally done. The results demonstrate the superior quality of the proposed model compared with the model with PV systems as the negative load.
When does metric use matter less? How firm and managerial characteristics moderate the relationship between metric use and marketing mix performance

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework, in an effort toward building a contingent theory of drivers and consequences of managerial metric use in marketing mix decisions, this paper develops a conceptual framework to test whether the relationship between metric use and marketing mix performance is moderated by firm and managerial characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – Based on reviews of the marketing, finance, management and accounting literatures, and homophily, firm resource- and decision-maker-based theories and 22 managerial interviews, a conceptual model is proposed. It is tested via generalized least squares – seemingly unrelated regression estimation of 1,287 managerial decisions. Findings – Results suggest that the impact of metric use on marketing mix performance is lower in firms which are more market oriented, larger and with worse recent business performance and for marketing and higher-level managers, while organizational involvement has a lesser nuanced effect. R.
Dermatitis Herpetiformis: Not Only in Adults

To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Clark et al (1) about a 17-year-old Caucasian boy with a long history of pruritic eruption that was slightly polymorphous and progressively extended to the upper and lower limbs, face, and back. The conclusive diagnosis of the authors was atypical dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) with regard to age, distribution of the lesions, microscopy, and direct immunofluorescence (DIF) findings. In our opinion, this case of DH cannot be considered unusual with regard to age. The literature and our experience show that DH can be commonly diagnosed in childhood and in adolescence. Our group recently published (2) a series of 159 patients with DH examined at the Section of Dermatology, University of Florence over the last 18 years, including 39 patients younger than 10 years of age (27%), 58 patients younger than 20 years of age (36%), and the remaining 62 patients ages 21 to 84 years, suggesting that pediatric DH, at least in some countries, is not as uncommon as usually reported in the literature. Although we agree with the authors that it might be an atypical case of DH with regard to the distribution of the lesions, which were asymmetric and involved genitalia, positive serologic tests, response to dapsone therapy, and the presence of subepidermal clefts and neutrophilic microabcesses located in the papillary dermis cannot be considered sufficient criteria for the diagnosis because of the lack of a positive DIF. (The authors did not find any deposits of immunoglobulin A [IgA], IgG, IgM, or C3.) According to the current guidelines (3), DIF of uninvolved skin remains the standard for establishing a DH diagnosis (4,5), and when it is found repeatedly to be negative, duodenal biopsy should be performed before starting any kind of therapy, in particular a gluten-free diet, which is considered first-line therapy for DH and celiac disease. We suggest adopting a multidisciplinary approach to confirm bowel involvement and the diagnosis of celiac disease before starting a lifelong gluten-free diet.
Exploitation and Exploration: Learning through Key Buyers and Overseas Subsidiaries

The learning dichotomy of exploitation and exploration offers a parsimonious framework to describe the complex interplay between innovation and efficiency. This study examined the effects of three antecedents on this pair of learning dichotomy: knowledge flow, buyer relations, and transnational strategy. We surveyed a group of manufacturing firms in Taiwan where contract manufacturing is prevalent. The results showed that exploitation learning from the focal firm's key buyer was positively related to all three independent variables: knowledge transfer from the buyer, buyer relations between the two firms, and the focal firm's own transnational strategy. On the other hand, exploration learning from the key buyer was positively related to only buyer relations and transnational strategy. Furthermore, while buyer relations and transnational strategy had about equal effect on exploitation, the effect of transnational strategy on exploration was almost twice that of buyer relations on exploration. The prevailing effects of transnational strategy confirm the absorptive capacity view that effective learning requires internal capability. Particularly for exploration learning, this internal capability happens to be transnational strategy in this study.
Combating Full-Duplex Active Eavesdropper: A Hierarchical Game Perspective

Security is an issue of paramount importance, yet is it a significant challenge for wireless communications, which becomes more intricate when facing a full duplex (FD) active eavesdropper capable of performing eavesdropping and jamming simultaneously. In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security issue in the presence of an FD active eavesdropper, who launches jamming attacks to further improve the eavesdropping. The jamming, however, also results in self-interference at the eavesdropper itself. This security problem is formulated within a hierarchical game framework where the eavesdropper acts as the leader and the legitimate user is the follower. In particular, we first investigate the follower’s secrecy rate maximization problem and derive the optimal legitimate transmission strategy. Then, the leader’s wiretap rate maximization is expressed as a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC). Leveraging the concavity of the follower’s problem, we transform the MPEC problem into a single-level optimization and obtain the jamming power allocation strategy by applying the primal-dual interior-point method. Moreover, we analyze the situations where only partial channel state information is available at the legitimate user and the corresponding impacts on the game. Finally, we present extensive simulation results to validate our theoretical analysis.
Convergence of a head-field selector Otx2 and Notch signaling: a mechanism for lens specification

Xenopus is ideal for systematic decoding of cis-regulatory networks because its evolutionary position among vertebrates allows one to combine comparative genomics with efficient transgenic technology in one system. Here, we have identified and analyzed the major enhancer of FoxE3 (Lens1), a gene essential for lens formation that is activated in the presumptive lens ectoderm (PLE) when commitment to the lens fate occurs. Deletion and mutation analyses of the enhancer based on comparison of Xenopus and mammalian sequences and in vitro and in vivo binding assays identified two essential transcriptional regulators: Otx2, a homeodomain protein expressed broadly in head ectoderm including the PLE, and Su(H), a nuclear signal transducer of Notch signaling. A Notch ligand, Delta2, is expressed in the optic vesicle adjacent to the PLE, and inhibition of its activity led to loss, or severe reduction, of FoxE3 expression followed by failure of placode formation. Ectopic activation of Notch signaling induced FoxE3 expression within head ectoderm expressing Otx2, and additional misexpression of Otx2 in trunk ectoderm extended the Notch-induced FoxE3 expression posteriorly. These data provide the first direct evidence of the involvement of Notch signaling in lens induction. The obligate integration of inputs of a field-selector (Otx2) and localized signaling (Notch) within target cis-regulatory elements might be a general mechanism of organ-field specification in vertebrates (as it is in Drosophila). This concept is also consistent with classical embryological studies of many organ systems involving a `multiple-step induction'.
Kinetics of Germination of Bacillus Spores

Vary, J. C. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and H. O. Halvorson. Kinetics or germination of Bacillus spores. J. Bacteriol. 89:1340–1347. 1965. —The kinetics of germination of Bacillus cereus strain T spores was accurately described by McCormick. To study the mechanism of germination, it is necessary to correlate the characteristic changes in a population of germinating spores with the behavior of the individual spores in the same population. Two microscopic events are apparent during germination: microlag, the time interval between the addition of l-alanine to heat-activated spores and the beginning of loss in refractility, and microgermination time, the time for the actual change in refractility to occur. The frequency distributions of both events are skewed, and appear to be independent. The effects of l-alanine concentration, heat activation, and temperature of germination on three parameters, microlag, microgermination, and per cent germination, were microscopically studied. The data are discussed in relation to the mechanism of germination, and a correlation between microlag and microgermination times with the constants of McCormick's equation has been suggested.
TEMPORAL AND ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH

This article presents a theoretical model that suggests that linguistic differences between Chinese and English have a qualitative effect on the processing of verbal information. A higher degree of phonological processing of English words was hypothesized to result in a superior encoding of temporal information. In contrast, a higher degree of contextual and visual-semantic processing of Chinese words was hypothesized to result in a superior encoding of interitem associative information. These effects were hypothesized to be absent for pictorial information. Two experiments found support for the hypotheses. In a sorting task, native English speakers demonstrated superior temporal memory for English words compared with native Chinese speakers for Chinese words. In a free recall task, native English speakers demonstrated a greater reliance on temporal order in the retrieval of English words, whereas native Chinese speakers demonstrated a greater reliance on semantic associations in the retrieval of Chinese words. In both experiments, cross-cultural differences were absent for semantically equivalent pictorial information. The implications of these memory findings are discussed with respect to the formation of memory-based judgments and the encoding of thematic information in marketing communications.
Community Perception, Satisfaction and Participation toward Power Plant Development in Southernmost of Thailand

A quantitative–qualitative mixed method was applied to investigate perception, satisfaction and participation of multicultural inhabitants toward the power plant development in Songkhla’s Chana district. A total of 1000 households and 20 community leader were selected and were taken in-depth interviewed annually from January 2005 to December 2008. Observation, focus groups, citizen dialog and consultative group meeting were also included for data collection. The direct affected inhabitant was expected to exceed 6,325 households in the Nathab River vicinity. Most of the respondents (97%) indicated that they knew various project development programs and overall satisfactions of respondents range from 83 to 95%. Male, education, social status, family income and asset, ability of accessing information, sense of democracy, public interest awareness, resources dependence for livelihood, caliber of project public relation staff, frequencies of community visiting and public activity funding were positively and significantly (p – way communication, (3) transparency, and (4) co-management practice.
Exploring Shopper Marketing Approach Implications On Brand Communication At The Point-Of-Purchase: An Experts Opinion Qualitative Study

Shopper marketing is a recent approach to marketing. Since shopper marketing is in the early stages of development, it is also an emerging research field and, consequently, questions and challenges to this approach are emerging across all the marketing-mix variables. This paper addresses the implications of adopting a shopper marketing view on the communication variable. Specifically, the purpose of the research is to study the implications of the shopper marketing approach on brand management, focusing on communication strategies and actions at the point-of-purchase. In order to address that goal, an experts opinion qualitative study was conducted, gathering primary data from thirteen shopper marketing experts, using a two-stage sampling judgmental and snowball techniques. The results are consistent with the literature review and complement it, providing explanations and adding elements that might help towards a more effective marketing communications management, particularly at the point-of-purchase.
Does Poor Quality of Institutions Attract Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions?

Quality of institutions has been found to positively affect Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. This, however, fails to explain the flow of FDI into countries with poor quality of institutions like India and China. This article shows that FDI flows in the form of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) in India share a negative relationship with the gap in quality of institutions between the host and home countries after controlling for market size and market opportunity in the home and host country and infrastructural facilities in the host country. This suggests that apart from market size and opportunity, CBMAs in India are attracted by poor quality of institutions, particularly corruption and poor governance in the country.
A Statistical Approach of Keyword Extraction for Efficient Retrieval

Large number of techniques for keyword extraction have been proposed for better matching of documents with the user’s query but most of them deal with tf-idf to find the weight age of query terms in the entire document but this can result in improper result as if a term has a low term frequency in overall document but high frequency in a certain part of the document then that term can be ignored by traditional tf-idf method. Through this paper, the keyword extraction is improved using a hybrid technique in which the entire document is split into multiple domains using a master keyword and the frequency of all unique words is found in every domain . The words having high frequency are selected as candidate keywords and the final selection is made on the basis of a graph which is constructed between the keywords using Word Net. The experiments, conducted on various documents show that proposed approach outperforms other keyword extraction methodologies by enhancing document retrieval.
Total Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activity of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as Affected by Soaking and Cooking Conditions

Chickpea lines with colored testa (seed coat) contain high levels of polyphenolic compounds that exhibit high levels of antioxidant activity. However, common processing procedures, such as soaking and cooking, may decrease the levels of these bioactive compounds and subsequent overall antioxidant activity. Here, the effects of soaking, cooking and steaming processes were examined in relation to total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC) and ferric reducing ability of plasma antioxidant activity (FRAP AA) of colored chickpea seeds. All processing steps significantly reduced TPC, TFC and FRAP AA in all of the tested chickpea seeds. Nevertheless, soaking the seeds at room temperature (for 22 h) resulted in a smaller decrease in TPC, TFC and FRAP AA than soaking at 60℃ (for 2 h). Moreover, steaming was superior to cooking in terms of conserving polyphenol and antioxidant activity. The observed reduction in TPC was mainly due to leaching of these compounds from the seed coat into the soaking or cooking water. Based on these results, we suggest that soaking at room temperature for 22 h followed by steaming for 1 h is the best method for retaining TPC, TFC and FRAP AA of colored chickpea.
Measurement of translational displacement probabilities by NMR: An indicator of compartmentation

We introduce and demonstrate an NMR pulsed gradient stimulated echo method of directly obtaining the molecular translational displacement probability (displacement profile) of a liquid. The temporal development of the displacement profile reflects the presence of diffusion, restrictions to diffusion (e.g., walls, membranes), flow, and spatially dependent relaxation sinks. This approach allows the study of compartments which are too small to be observed by conventional NMR imaging methods. The distribution of spatial properties of compartments can be characterized over a spatial field of about 0.1 to 25 μm, completely independent of the absolute spatial location of the individual compartments. © 1990 Academic Press, Inc.
Economics of backyard poultry production in Akure South local government area of Ondo State, Nigeria

This study examined the economic analysis of backyard poultry production in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to examine the socio-economic characteristics of poultry farming, determine the profitability of backyard poultry production, and identify its constraints. Primary and secondary data were collected during the study; primary data through personal interview with the respondents (farmers), using well-structured questionnaire. The simple random sampling method was used to select the farmers that were interviewed. Descriptive statistics such as tables, frequency distribution, and percentages were used to present the socio-economic characteristics of the poultry farmers. Gross margin analysis was used to determine the profitability of backyard poultry production in the study area. The analysis showed that 40 per cent of the respondents were males and 60 per cent were females. The average age of the respondents was 36 years, and the average years of schooling was 9. Also, the average household size was six persons. The study showed that backyard poultry production (layers) is a profitable venture in the area, with a net profit of N271.95 ($2.36) per bird. The major constraints in the study area were labour and finance. The study concluded with suggestions for increasing the productivity of poultry production in the study area in particular and in Nigeria as a whole.