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Designing, Managing, and Sustaining Functionally Collaborative Emergency Management Networks

The networked governance performance in emergency management is dependent on structural, spatial, and temporal issues embedded into interorganizational relationships. Network sustainability is one of such issues that requires due attention by scholars and practitioners in the field. This article examines how network sustainability, namely, the extent to which network relationships are maintained and nurtured over time, is affected by interdependent network relationships, network complexity, and information-communication technology (ICT) utilization at the local level. Based on 118 responses from a self-administered survey distributed to four county-based metropolitan regions in the state of Florida, this study provides a multiple linear regression analysis. Using UCINET social network analysis software, additional analysis of the network structure and relationships in the four counties is provided for further insight. The findings suggest positive and statistically significant relationships between network relationships and information-communication technology utilization and that there is no statistically significant impact of network complexity as well as control variables such as sector type, number of full-time employees, and yearly budget. The network analysis suggests different patterns between friendship and advice networks during the preparedness and response phases of an emergency. This study contributes to the literature on networked governance applied to the field of emergency management.
Lacazia loboi gen. nov., comb. nov., the Etiologic Agent of Lobomycosis

The new genus Lacazia P. Taborda, V. Taborda, et McGinnis is proposed to accommodate Lacazia loboi (O. M. Fonseca et Lacaz) P. Taborda, V. Taborda, et McGinnis, the obligate pathogen that causes lobomycosis in mammals. The continued placement of that fungus in the genus Paracoccidioides Almeida as Paracoccidioides loboi is taxonomically inappropriate. Loboa loboi Ciferri et al. is a synonym of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.
Slide processing for the examination of male mammalian meiotic chromosomes.

A rapid method was devised specifically for the cytological identification of translocations in the male mouse at late prophase to metaphase of meiotic division I, but the method should be useful for less specific objectives requiring examination of mammalian testicular material. For the adult mouse, masses of tubules from a single testis, freed of the testicular tunic, are placed in 3 ml of 0.7% sodium citrate for 15-20 min, and subsequently fixed in 50% acetic acid by the addition of 3 ml of glacial acetic acid to the hypotonic citrate. To facilitate handling of individual tubules by preserving their visible structure, the addition of fixative is at a rate which is grossly adjusted so that 2 ml will have been added at the end of 30 sec and the remaining 1 ml by the end of a minute. A single fixed tubule 1-2 cm long is placed lengthwise on a slide and covered with a drop of lactic-acetic orcein made as follows: Add 2 gm of synthetic orcein (G. T. Gurr) to a mixture of 50.0 ml of glacial acetic acid, 42.5.
Work Experience Schemes and Part‐time Jobs in a Recruitment Context

Abstract This paper examines the significance of work experience schemes and part‐time jobs for school pupils within the context of recruitment to youth jobs. Specifically, it focuses on the role played by work experience and part‐time jobs in the recruitment of young people to engineering apprenticeships in a Midlands town during the recession of the early 1980s. The employers gave greater importance to holiday jobs, Saturday jobs and paper rounds than work experience in recruiting apprentices. The former were viewed as a more effective guide to applicants’ work attitudes. Work experience lacked the element of ‘sacrifice’ and other aspects associated with ‘real’ work Despite this, work experience proliferated in the 1980s, whilst pupils’ part‐time work has been neglected as a learning resource. Additionally, this paper presents the more general argument that a strong vocationalist perspective on work experience, where it is viewed as being grounded in the labour‐power demands of employers as expressed in.
Vancouver's Gasoline-Price Wars: An Empirical Exercise in Uncovering Supergame Strategies

This paper uses a unique data set to determine which dynamic model of tacit collusion best describes behaviour in a particular industry. The area investigated is a region of the Vancouver, British Columbia retail-gasoline market. Players are service-station managers who compete daily. Firms choose price in each period using strategies that depend on prices chosen in the previous period. Periodically, unanticipated demand shocks precipitate price wars. When shocks occur, the firms in the market must determine the new demand conditions and adjust their strategies. From an econometric point of view, slopes of intertemporal reaction functions are latent variables. The resulting system of equations with time-varying parameters is estimated via the Kalman filter. Different repeated-game oligopoly models correspond to different transition matrices for the latent variables. The models can thus be assessed in terms of their power to explain firm behaviour in this market.
The Housing Pathways of Young People in the UK

The authors examine the housing pathways of young people in the UK in the years 1999 to 2008, and consider the changing nature of these pathways in the run up to 2020. They employ a highly innovative methodology, which begins with the identification and description of key drivers likely to affect young people's housing circumstances in the future. The empirical identification and analysis of housing pathways is then achieved using multiple-sequence analysis and cluster analysis of the British Household Panel Survey, contextualised by qualitative interviews with a large sample of young people. The authors describe how the interactions between the meanings, perceptions, and aspirations of young people, and the opportunities and constraints imposed by the drivers, are having a major impact on young people's housing pathways, resulting in considerable housing policy challenges, particularly in relation to the private rented sector.
Children with prepubertal-onset major depressive disorder and anxiety grown up.

BACKGROUND The continuity in adulthood of major depressive disorder (MDD) first arising before puberty is largely unknown. This information could guide early treatment and clarify the appropriateness of including children with MDD in genetic studies. METHODS Eighty-three subjects with onset of MDD, 44 subjects with anxiety disorder and no MDD, and 91 subjects with no evidence of past or current psychiatric disorders were assessed by two psychiatrists before puberty (Tanner stage < III) and were evaluated 10 to 15 years later as adults by an independent team without knowledge of the initial diagnosis. RESULTS The clinical outcome of children with prepubertal-onset MDD in adulthood includes a high risk of suicide attempts (nearly 3-fold compared with normal controls and 2-fold compared with children with anxiety) and bipolar disorder. Compared with controls, both the children with MDD and those with anxiety went on to have increased risk of substance abuse and conduct disorder but not other disorders, increased use of longterm psychiatric and medical services, and overall impaired functioning. Children with prepubertal-onset MDD with a recurrence of MDD during follow-up had higher rates of MDD in their first-degree relatives. CONCLUSIONS There is high morbidity in clinically referred children with prepubertal-onset MDD and anxiety, but continuity and specificity of MDD or anxiety disorder in adulthood is less clear. Caution is warranted in selecting clinically referred children with prepubertal-onset MDD for inclusion in genetic studies unless they have a family history of MDD and recurrence of MDD over time.
Speculation and Price Stability: A Note

IN recent article Robert Z. Aliber has described a technique "which can be used to infer whether speculative transactions have amplified or dampened the range of movement in the spot price" and has applied it to cotton prices for two periods, 1937-41 and 1957-62.1 This note offers a comment on the application of the technique, points to the difficulty of determining, from price series alone, whether speculation has been destabilizing or not, and questions the derivation by Aliber of the conclusions he presents. 1. Aliber identifies periods in which speculators have become more bullish as those in which they have increased their long position in futures contracts and in which the cost of hedging (i.e., the excess of spot price over futures price) has become smaller.2 The combination of these two changes shows, according to the author, that the speculators' demand function has shifted to the right, that is, that the speculators have become more bullish during the period. For present purposes the basis of this identification procedure need not be questioned.3 The
Increasing female representation on company boards: an interview with Regina Eckert, Senior Research Associate, Center for Creative Leadership, USA

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an interview with Regina Eckert, Senior Research Associate, Center for Creative Leadership, USA.Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an interview.Findings – In the following interview, Regina Eckert discusses the issues facing women leaders, the negative stereotypes that persist, and the barriers to increased female representation on company boardsOriginality/value – Eckert gives advice to aspiring female leaders, recommending women develop greater networking skills to ensure they have the support and visibility to move into more senior roles.
Performance evaluation using statistical quality control techniques

Total quality management is now an established and widely used management process. One of its associated features is the application of statistical quality control techniques. These have been applied to both manufacturing and service industries. This paper presents an application of this methodology to the area of human performance evaluation in a service industry. It describes the data, method of their collection, their analysis, and a subjective evaluation criterion developed to evaluate the performance.
Economics of Forestry in an Evolving Society

Abstract A debate that has raged for centuries is unlikely to be resolved by me in one lecture. However, I shall do my best to set forth the issues and indicate what ought to be the crucial factors that a jury should consider in rendering its verdict on the matter. The issue is one between forestry experts and the general public on the one side and professional economists and profit-conscious businessmen on the other. At first blush this would seem to suggest that economists are on the side of the interests and are not themselves members of the human race. But, as I hope to show, sound economic analysis is needed to do justice to the cases put forward by either of the adversary parties.
Tourism, Capital Good Imports and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence for Spain

Exports are generally assumed to promote long-term growth through two main channels. The first, known as the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis, is by enhancing economy-wide efficiency. This mechanism has recently been applied to tourism services exports (the tourism-led growth, TLG, hypothesis). The second channel is the financing of imports of foreign capital goods, thus raising the level of capital formation. Although this channel turns out to be empirically important, no theoretical rigorous foundation has yet been provided. Moreover, it has never been investigated for tourism exports. This paper fills two gaps. On the theoretical side, it provides a clear justification of the role of capital good imports in the link between exports and overall economic growth. A model has been built to examine this so-called EKIG hypothesis (exports → capital good imports → growth) in which sustained economic growth is achieved by imports of foreign capital entirely financed through inbound tourism. This model highlights a mechanism of international transmission of economic growth from the tourist-generating country (the tourism services importer) to the tourist-receiving economy (the tourism services exporter) through trade and terms-of-trade movement without any technological progress, research and development (R&D) activity or accumulation of human capital in the host economy. On the empirical side, this study constitutes the first attempt to examine the role of tourism exports on economic growth through capital good imports. The authors use Johansen's cointegration approach and the multivariate Granger causality test to analyse the TKIG (tourism → capital good imports → growth) hypothesis in the Spanish economy.
Effects of Chlorophytum arundinaceum, Asparagus adscendens and Asparagus racemosus on pro‐inflammatory cytokine and corticosterone levels produced by stress

Chlorophytum arundinaceum, Asparagus adscendens and Asparagus racemosus are used in the Indian traditional system of medicine for improving the general state of health and for stress‐related immune disorders. The effects of the methanol and aqueous extracts of the tuberous roots of these plants were examined in an experimental mouse model of stress, induced by swimming. The extracts were shown to exert an inhibitory effect on pro‐inflammatory cytokines, namely interleukin 1β and tumour necrosis factor α, and on the production of nitric oxide in mouse macrophage cells RAW 264.7 stimulated by lipopolysaccharide in vitro. Similar inhibition was also observed in the production of interleukin 2 in EL 4 lymphoma cells stimulated by concanavalin A. Corticosterone levels in serum and adrenal glands were measured. The findings suggest that these plants may be beneficial in the management of stress and inflammatory conditions. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The effects of macroeconomic factors on stock returns: Istanbul Stock Market

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) on a monthly basis, for the period January 2001 to September 2005. Design/methodology/approach - This study examines six pre-specified macroeconomic variables which are: the term structure of interest rate, unanticipated inflation, risk premium, exchange rate and money supply. All these are the same as those used by Chen, Roll and Roll for the US market. In this study, the authors develop one more variable namely unemployment rate, which has a relation with the stock return. Findings - Using the OLS technique, the authors observed that there are some differences among the market portfolios. Before starting to comment on the result of OLS, the serial correlation problem was discussed by using Durbin-Watson statistics. In this study, the critical values were ranged from between 1.33 and 1.81 ( Research limitations/implications - In this paper, the authors face a problem that was no corporate bond in Turkey's market. Originality/value - This analysis appears to be the first empirical test of APT using the CAPM formula for finding the risk premium point for ISE.
Gender and welfare state regimes

Part I. Gender Inequality and Welfare State Regimes 1: Jet Bussemaker and Kees van Kersbergen: Contemporary Social Capitalist Welfare States and Gender Inequality 2: Julia S. OConnor: Employment Equality Strategies in Liberal Welfare States 3: Diane Sainsbury: Gender and Social Democratic Welfare States Part II. The Gendered Impact of Policies Across Welfare States 4: Marcia K. Meyers, Janet C. Gornick, and Katherine Ross: Public Childcare, Parental Leave, and Employment 5: Majella Kilkey and Jonathan Bradshaw: Lone Mothers, Economic Well-being and Policies 6: Diane Sainsbury: Taxation, Family Responsibilities, and Employment 7: Gender Equality in the Labour Market Part III. Gender Regimes and Welfare State Regimes 8: Diane Sainsbury: Gender, Policy Regimes and Politics.
Modeling Recreation Demand in the Presence of Unobservable Travel Costs: Toward a Travel Price Model

An important issue in the application of travel cost models is the construction of a travel cost variable. This paper develops an econometric approach that views travel costs as an unobserved latent variable. The latent variable approach utilizes indicators to capture the role of individual travel costs in recreational demand models. The latent variables approach has at least two advantages over conventional approaches. One, the indicators can include both traditional components such as time and distance and non-traditional components such as the scenic beauty. Second, the estimation procedure results in each indicator being valued in dollar terms.
Educational Technology and the Diverse Classroom

ugh @l, creative ways of using technology in the classroom can encourage development in students of diverse backgrounds. tent students. Although the presence of technology in U.S. classrooms and society increasingly demands technological competence for teachers, there are even more compelling reasons for technological competence in multicultural classrooms. Classrooms with diversity in ethnicity, language, and culture are quickly becoming the norm. Unfortunately, "the poorer, non-Anglo-American, limited Enderstanding; (el enhance communication skills; and (f) make learning exciting, enjoyable, and relevant (Soska 1994). Consequently, comprehensive technology use could ameliorate the high academic failure found in multicultural classrooms. In addition, instructional computing seems to: (a) benefit both low and highachieving children; (b) improve specific content-area skills and
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market

Europeanization has often been conceived as a top-down process, necessitating implementation and adjustment at the national level. However, Europeanization can also be conditioned by bottom-up national initiatives. While recent endeavors in comparative political economy have emphasized the resilience of coordinated market economies, few detailed empirical studies have examined to date exactly how different European systems of political-economic governance cope with and respond to an European impetus for liberalization. This original study of the impact of the EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. In permitting any company registered in an EU member state to provide services throughout Europe, new possibilities were created for the transnational posting of workers from low-wage to high-wage countries. However, high-wage countries could re-regulate the wage levels applicable to such employees. The exact nature of such response strategy is coloured by the respective institutional power that labour market interest associations like trade unions and employer associations command. Therefore, different institutionalised varieties of capitalism generate distinct re-regulations of the Single European Market. Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive and thorough national re-regulations. This applies to Austria and France, but also Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. By contrast, countries with less strongly embedded neocorporatist structures, in which due to organizational deficiencies trade unions face difficulties blocking employer demands, create liberal response strategies, permitting a stratification of wage levels. Hence, both Germany and the Netherlands implemented liberal business-friendly re-regulations. The volume makes the case for important amendments to existing accounts of Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. Scholars of Europeanization need to incorporate bottom-up re-regulation into their conceptual framework, particularly in response to 'negative integration'. Recent strides in comparative political economy have placed great emphasis on continued divergence, yet this study suggests that even within the presumably unified group of 'non-liberal' coordinated market economies important institutional differences produce very distinct responses in the face of European liberalization.
The People-Nature Relation and the Historical Significance of the Labour Theory of Value

Contrary to some ecological critics, it is argued that it is not Marx's labour theory of value which should be blamed for environmental degradation and the ecological crisis, but rather the nature of capitalism itself insofar as it implies a continued appropriation of natural resources as a free gift of nature to capital. It is also argued that the necessarily limited environmental reforms under capitalism cannot ensure ecological sustainability. In historical perspective, it is argued that communism could offer the conditions for such an ecological sustainability, and create the preconditions for the supersession of the labour theory of value.
Annual variation of dietary deoxynivalenol exposure during years of different Fusarium prevalence: a pilot biomonitoring study

Dietary exposure to deoxynivalenol (DON) has been reported previously in the UK, but levels were low and most individuals are well protected by the maximum permitted levels in food set by the European Commission. However, no information is available on annual fluctuation in dietary DON exposure. We hypothesised that dietary DON exposure may vary when individuals consume cereals derived from harvests with low (2011) and high (2012) Fusarium prevalence. In this pilot study, spot urine samples were collected in years 1 and 2 from 15 volunteers following their habitual diet. Urinary DON was analysed by LC-MS/MS to estimate 24-h DON excretion and daily dietary DON intake. DON was detectable in all urine samples with an average excretion of 10.08 ± 9.13 µg/24-h urine in year 1 which significantly (p = 0.005) increased to 24.84 ± 13.83 µg/24-h urine in year 2. This resulted from an estimated dietary intake of 195.94 ± 166.44 ng DON kg–1 BW in year 1 and 518.64 ± 292.49 ng DON kg–1 BW in year 2. Based on these estimates, the tolerable daily intake for DON was exceeded in 13% of occasions in year 2 and none in year 1. This pilot study is based on estimates of DON intake derived from urinary DON excretion. Results suggest that DON exposure varies annually and that current maximum levels might not sufficiently protect consumers during years of high Fusarium prevalence.