Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics

1.The nature of strategy PART ONE THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: CHANGE, DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL 2.The nature of change and its implications for decision making and control 3.Ordinary and extraordinary management PART TWO ORDINARY MANAGEMENT CLOSE TO CERTAINTY AND AGREEMENT 4.The nature of an organisation's legitimate system and its primary purpose 5.The rational model of strategic management 6.The visionary ideological model of strategic management 7.The results of using ordinary management to make long-term strategies PART THREE ORGANISATION DYNAMICS 8.Organisations are feedback systems 9.System dynamics far from equilibrium PART FOUR EXTRAORDINARY MANAGEMENT FAR FROM CERTAINTY AND AGREEMENT 10.The nature of an organisation's shadow system and its primary purpose 11.Decision making and control processes employed in the shadow system 12.Extraordinary management in the shadow system PART FIVE CREATIVITY AND TENSION BETWEEN LEGITIMATE AND SHADOW SYSTEMS 13.Strategic management and organisational dynamics in perspective
The Link between Earnings Timeliness, Earnings Conservatism and Board Composition: Evidence from the UK

This paper examines the links between accounting quality, proxied by earnings timeliness and conservatism, and the composition of the board of directors. Results indicate that firms with a higher proportion of outside board members are more likely to recognise bad news in earnings on a timely basis. However, firms whose boards comprise a relatively high proportion of outsiders do not display greater reporting conservatism with regard to the recognition of good news. These findings suggest that board composition is an important factor in determining the quality of UK firms' reported earnings with respect to incorporating bad news on a timely basis.
Understanding local innovation systems in peripheral tourism destinations

Tourism destinations in peripheral areas are often large regions established by centralised government agencies to encourage collaboration between dispersed communities and foster innovation. Relatively little research attention has been paid to the impact that centrally defined destination boundaries have on whether and how small communities contribute to innovation at a regional level. This paper examines the case of Burra, a small town in rural South Australia. It analyses the networking, collaboration and knowledge exchange behaviour of tourism stakeholders in the context of the state-government-defined ‘Clare Valley’ tourism region. Data were drawn from a web-based social network analysis, in-depth interviews, historic document analysis and field observations. The study found that the local tourism system had limited aspirations and capabilities to collaborate with other towns in the region. Lack of regional engagement was only partially due to intra-regional competition and resistance to regional boundaries. More significant barriers included a local culture of operating in isolation, an embedded reliance on public sector leadership to manage systemic interactions, an aging system with limited ambition to change and an inability to harness in-migrants and externally based stakeholders to stimulate knowledge transfer. Changing the imposed destination boundaries would have limited impact on the operation of the local system. The paper concludes that effective regional destination development in peripheral areas needs to be better informed by more detailed understandings of local tourism systems and their capacities to engage.
Bifocal Reflector antenna system for radar imaging at 300 GHz

A 300 GHz radar imaging system is presented, including descriptions of the radar sensor and antenna subsystems. The antenna consists of a Bifocal Ellipsoidal Gregorian Reflector whose beam is scanned by a combination of the rotation and vertical tilting of a flat small secondary mirror. A prototype is being mounted and its characterization will be presented.
Closed loop speed controlled two stage PFC converter fed PMSM drive

This paper presents the closed loop controlled two stage PFC (Power Factor Correction) converter fed PMSM (Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor) drive. The proposed PFC converters consist of uncontrolled rectifier, PFC converter and DC converter. The π filter is connected at the output of converter to reduce output ripple of DC converter. The performance of the proposed converter is verified by interfacing inverter and PMSM drive. This work deals with comparison of PI & FL controlled two stage PFC converter fed PMSM drive system. The steady state performance parameters like output voltage ripple, speed, power factor, THD are analyzed with PI (Proportional Integrative) and Fuzzy Logic Controller(FLC). The Transient parameters such as rise time, peak time, settling time, and steady state error also compared for both controller. The Closed loop PI & FL controlled two stage PFC converter Fed PMSM drive systems are modeled and simulated.
The CBL-Interacting Protein Kinase CIPK23 Regulates HAK5-Mediated High-Affinity K+ Uptake in Arabidopsis Roots1[OPEN]

The protein kinase CIPK23 activates high-affinity K+ uptake in roots and is essential for growth in K+-limiting conditions. Plant growth and development requires efficient acquisition of essential elements. Potassium (K+) is an important macronutrient present in the soil solution at a wide range of concentrations. Regulation of the K+ uptake systems in the roots is essential to secure K+ supply. It has been shown in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that when the external K+ concentration is very low (<10 µm), K+ nutrition depends exclusively on the high-affinity K+ transporter5 (HAK5). Low-K+-induced transcriptional activation of the gene encoding HAK5 has been previously reported. Here, we show the posttranscriptional regulation of HAK5 transport activity by phosphorylation. Expression in a heterologous system showed that the Ca2+ sensors calcineurin B-like (CBL1), CBL8, CBL9, and CBL10, together with CBL-interacting protein kinase23 (CIPK23), activated HAK5 in vivo. This activation produced an increase in the affinity and the Vmax of K+ transport. In vitro experiments show that the N terminus of HAK5 is phosphorylated by CIPK23. This supports the idea that phosphorylation of HAK5 induces a conformational change that increases its affinity for K+. Experiments of K+ (Rb+) uptake and growth measurements in low-K+ medium with Arabidopsis single mutants hak5, akt1, and cipk23, double mutants hak5 akt1, hak5 cipk23, and akt1 cipk23, and the triple mutant hak5 akt1 cipk23 confirmed the regulatory role of CIPK23 in planta.
Vanishing chiral couplings in the large-N C resonance theory

5 pages, 2 figures. -- PACS nrs. : 12.39. Fe; 11.15. Pg; 12.38. -t. -- ISI Article Identifier: 000247625300022. -- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611375
The introduction of accrual reporting policy in the Australian public sector

Governments in Australia are in the process of implementing accrual reporting for their departments and governments as a whole. The central issue of this paper is to provide an explanation as to how general purpose financial reporting became a significant issue for governments in Australia. Agenda‐setting literature provides the framework within which to analyse the specific events and strategies used by public sector accountants to promote accrual technologies. The main finding of the research is that accrual technologies have been promoted by public sector accountants working from within government institutions, and often aligned with the organised accounting profession. Prior to the late 1980s the Auditors‐General were the main actors involved, however, more recently, accounting technologies have been promoted by accounting policy units within Treasuries and Departments of Finance. The paper concludes with a call for future research on the implications of such accounting changes for organisational and social functioning.
Bulgaria's Inward FDI and EU Accession

Bulgaria's extraordinary openness performance in terms of international trade and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) volumes has not been affected by both the country's failure to reach the levels of structural transformation and technological upgrading achieved by Central and Eastern Europe member states and by the failure to comply with European Union (EU) law within certain time frames. Although a substantial literature has evolved on the country's inward FDI due to this performance, empirical microeconomic studies explore the time frame up to EU accession. This study focuses on the effect of EU accession in order to revisit Bulgaria's primary inward FDI determinants via a meso-economic panel analysis of disaggregated data by industry. The findings indicate the neglected importance of extra-EU exports as a driver of Bulgaria's inward FDI and the appropriateness of micro-/meso-approaches to the subject.
Husbands Who Kill Their Wives

This article addresses the current lack of research on uxoricides in non-Western societies by examining the phenomenon in Ghana, West Africa. Analysis of data from the 60 husband—wife killings reported in a national daily newspaper reveals that jealousy and suspicion of infidelity overwhelmingly provided the basis for wife murders. The findings also indicate that assailants and victims were of low socioeconomic background and the murders predominantly occurred in the rural areas of the country. Posthomicidal suicide by the assailant occurred in about one fourth of the cases. Overall, the results demonstrate that the patterns of uxoricide in Ghana are congruous in many significant ways with those noted in Western industrialized societies. It is concluded that additional research in non-Western societies is warranted to contribute to the development of sound conclusions about and remedies for uxoricide.
The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Using data on older workers from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey, along with an elaborate life-cycle planning model, the authors quantify the effect of each individual's death on the financial status of his or her survivors and the degree to which life insurance holdings moderate these consequences. The average change in living standard that would result from a spouse's death is small, both in absolute terms and relative to the decline that would occur without insurance. However, this average obscures a startling mismatch between insurance holdings and underlying vulnerabilities. For many of the most vulnerable, the amounts purchased are surprisingly small, and for many of the least vulnerable, the amounts are surprisingly large. As a result, uninsured vulnerabilities are quite widespread. The magnitude of these vulnerabilities, as well as the proclivity to address any given degree of vulnerability by purchasing life insurance, vary systematically with individual and household characteristics.
Forecasting real exchange rate trends using age structure data – the case of Sweden

Theory predicts that life cycle saving and consumption behaviour could cause real exchange rate variations as the age structure varies. Time series regressions show that the Swedish demographic structure has significant explanatory power on the real exchange rate during 1960 to 2002. A model using age shares as regressors is used for medium-term out-of-sample forecasts, which perform well both compared to naïve forecasts and forecasts based on an autoregressive model.
Dynamic Fiscal Policies, Unemployment, and Economic Growth

This paper analyzes the growth and employment effects of dynamic fiscal policies in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth and imperfect labour markets. With balanced-budget policies, the modelled closed economy grows at a constant rate which is the higher, the lower are the labour tax rate and the unemployment rate. Both government Ponzi games and constant-flow budget policies are shown not to be feasible. Furthermore, while constant-stock fiscal policies are sustainable, an increase in the debt-to-capital ratio is accompanied by higher taxes, a rise in unemployment and lower economic growth.
R&D, Market Structure, and Profits: A Value-Based Approach

This paper considers a complex relation among R & D, market structure and a market value-based measure of profits. Perhaps of greatest interest, a positive effect of R & D on profits emerges, as does a negative R & D-concentration interaction effect. Both appear robust, and support an intangible capital and rivalrous view of R & D. Despite substantial interest in the question little direct evidence on research and development (R&D), market structure and profits relations has appeared in the literature. An important exception to this rule is Grabowski and Mueller (hereafter G-M) (1978) who reported a strong effect of R & D on adjusted profit rate data, in addition to an equally strong negative R & Dmarket concentration interaction effect. G-M interpret their findings as support for an "intangible capital" and rivalrous view of R & D. Alternatively, they are also consistent with the hypothesis that firms in highly concentrated markets pursue R & D less efficiently, or take on riskier projects. In any event, G-M's findings seem inconsistent with a view of R & D as a barrier to entry (see Kamien and Schwartz, 1975). This study extends previous research in at least four respects. First, we adopt a market valued-based measure of profits in order to avoid any bias inherent in accounting profit data due to an expense-as-incurred rather than capitalization and amortization treatment of R & D, advertising and similar expenditures. Second, we evaluate simultaneous influences among profits, R & D, advertising and concentration suggested, but not tested, previously. Third, estimation results are derived using Leamer's SEARCH technique which illustrates the sensitivity of estimates to alternate model specifications. And fourth, we consider an n = 390-firm Fortune 500 sample, which is substantially larger than in previous studies, including firms responsible for nearly 90% of private sector R & D during 1977. Estimation results should therefore be broadly indicative of the economic consequences of R & D.
The Accidental Player: The EU and the Global Economy

Paper prepared for a lecture at the Indian Centre for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi, 25 November 2005. Jean Pisani-Ferry says that while the US exercises leadership over the entire scope of international economic relations, Europe can be characterised as an ‘accidental player’ whose international behaviour lacks consistency.
Obstacles to privatisation of state‐owned industries in Algeria: the political economy of a distributive conflict

This analysis seeks to explain why privatisation of state‐owned industrial enterprises in Algeria ‐ a process pushed by the IMF and the World Bank and launched in 1994 ‐has not led to a single complete divestiture of shares of corporatised public enterprises by 2001. Privatisation of these enterprises has been impeded by (1) intra‐elite struggles and violent conflicts between state elites and armed groups over the distribution of rents, rendering decision making and coherent reform strategies impossible; (2) military and bureaucratic elite clans that profit from import monopoly and oligopoly rents and display little interest in increased domestic production; (3) the role of industrial enterprises in (clientelist) social networks; (4) the strong remnants of a nationalist, étatist, socialist and collectivist ideology.
Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and the Clustering of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Early Childhood.

BACKGROUND Obesity has its origins in early childhood; however, there is limited evidence of the association between anthropometric indicators and cardiometabolic risk factors in young children. Our aim was to evaluate the associations between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in relation to cardiometabolic risk factors and to explore the clustering of these factors. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in children aged 1-5 years through TARGet Kids! (n = 2917). Logistic regression was used to evaluate associations between BMI and WC z-scores and individual traditional and possible non-traditional cardiometabolic risk factors. The underlying clustering of these measures was evaluated using principal components analysis (PCA). RESULTS Child obesity (BMI z-score >2) was associated with high (>90th percentile) leptin [odds ratio (OR) 8.15, 95% confidence interval (CI) 4.56, 14.58] and insulin (OR = 1.76; 95% CI 1.05, 2.94). WC z-score >1 was associated with high insulin (OR 1.59, 95% CI 1.11, 2.28), leptin (OR 5.48, 95% CI 3.48, 8.63) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D < 75 nmol/L (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.08, 1.79). BMI and WC were not associated with other traditional cardiometabolic risk factors, including non-High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and glucose. Among children 3-5 years (n = 1035) the PCA of traditional risk factors identified three components: adiposity/blood pressure, metabolic, and lipids. The inclusion of non-traditional risk factors identified four additional components but contributed minimally to the total variation explained. CONCLUSIONS Anthropometric indicators are associated with selected cardiometabolic risk factors in early childhood, although the clustering of risk factors suggests that adiposity is only one distinct component of cardiometabolic risk. The measurement of other risk factors beyond BMI and WC may be important in defining cardiometabolic risk in early childhood.
Evaluation of an intervention designed to enhance involvement of older patients in their own care

Objective: To implement a programme for involvement of older patients aged 70+ in general practice, and to detect quality changes after its implementation. Methods: The study was performed in 11 European countries as an uncontrolled before-and-after study, in which a number of GPs and patients answered a questionnaire before and after receiving an intervention. The intervention was aimed at motivating, instructing and facilitating GPs and older patients to increase patient involvement during consultation by use of a specially designed consultation leaflet. Results: Valid data from seven countries exist. There was a total of 765 patients and 70 GPs in the pre-intervention phase, and 564 patients and 49 GPs in the post-intervention phase. In the post-intervention group, 43% of the patients thought that the consultation leaflet had improved the consultation and 62% of the GPs found it to be useful. There were no significant differences between pre- and post-intervention patient perceptions of the level of involvement, evaluations of consultations and perceptions of feeling enabled to deal with their health situation. Conclusion: Quality of consultations as measured by patient satisfaction and patient enablement did not improve as a result of the intervention, but nearly half of the patients and two thirds of the GPs found the intervention to be useful. Unselected use of this intervention on all patients cannot be advised without further studies on possible effects. Future studies should focus on the applicability and benefits of the methods for special patient groups.
POSTER: Putting the G back into GPU/CPU Systems Research

Modern SoCs contain several CPU cores and many GPU cores to execute both general purpose and highly-parallel graphics workloads. In many SoCs, more area is dedicated to graphics than to general purpose compute. Despite this, the micro-architecture research community primarily focuses on GPGPU and CPU-only research, and not on graphics (the primary workload for many SoCs). The main reason for this is the lack of efficient tools and simulators for modern graphics applications.This work focuses on the GPU's memory traffic generated by graphics. We describe a new graphics tracing framework and use it to both study graphics applications' memory behavior as well as how CPUs and GPUs affect system performance. Our results show that graphics applications exhibit a wide range of memory behavior between applications and across time, and slows down co-running SPEC applications by 59% on average.
Comparing the performance of male‐ and female‐controlled businesses

Many policy makers and practitioners view female entrepreneurs as a “special group” worthy of research and policy attention. Concern has, however, been raised surrounding the quality of the studies focusing on female entrepreneurs. The six specification decisions (i.e. purpose, theoretical perspective, focus, level of analysis, methodology, and time frame) highlighted by Low and MacMillan’s 1998 article, “Entrepreneurship: past research and future challenges”, to review the entrepreneurship field were utilized to guide a critical review of Watson’s 2002 study, “Comparing the performance of male – and female – controlled businesses: relating outputs to inputs”, relating to the performance of male and female‐controlled businesses. Watson’s insightful study makes several contributions to knowledge and highlights issues that need to be more rigorously considered by scholars focusing on the female entrepreneurship phenomenon. Scholars who consider and report the six specification decisions will provide richer evidence and they will enable studies to be more easily compared with one another. Further, more rigorously collected evidence will enable policy makers and practitioners to make more informed resource allocation decisions.
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The term “Fishing Down Marine Food Webs” describes the gradual transition in landing from marine ecosystems towards organisms lower in the food web. To address this issue and the need to manage the marine ecosystem in a broader perspective, Ecosystem Management is recommended. Ecosystem Management, however, requires models that can link the ecosystem level to the operation level, so this paper examines an ecosystem production model and shows that it is suitable for applying ground rent theory. This model is the simplest possible that incorporates the principles of size as the main determinant of the predator–prey interaction, the inclusion of mass balance in the predator–prey allocation, and mortality and somatic growth as consequences of the predator–prey allocation. The model needs to be parameterized for the specific ecosystem and the price and cost functions must be established empirically before drawing the conclusion that Fishing Down Marine Food Webs is economically detrimental can be established directly. Nevertheless, the model does reveal a need for intertemporal balance with respect to both fish size and harvest volume. These aspects are not addressed in any systematic way at the ecosystem level in the present management. Therefore, economic predictions for an ecosystem managed as a common pool resource must be that the exploitation probably are conducted at lower sized than optimum. In addition, given its population stock approach, the present management probably overlooks the ability of an ecosystem to sustain total volume of harvest. Given the two aspects of intertemporal choice revealed by the model, the conclusion must be that the Fishing Down Marine Food Webs is probably driven by the current management’s inability to conduct adequate intertemporal balancing; therefore, it is probably detrimental from an economic point of view. The marine ecosystem therefore requires an ecosystem management for economic reasons; in this context, models like the one presented here can serve as useful planning tools.