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The Role of Corporate Social Performance (CSP) on the Talent Attraction: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract Talent Management is found to significantly impact the organizational competitive performance and thus, has received increased research and practitioners’ attention over the past two decades. The shortage of talent has pushed the corporates to a war for talent which focuses on attracting, engaging and retaining the right talent over competitors. The strategies of attracting the right talent therefore have become the vital first step in Talent Management. The existing literature suggests Corporate Social Performance (CSP) to facilitate attracting the right talent. However, the literature emphasizes the need for context specific research to identify factors influencing talent attraction. Meantime, if and how CSP assists talent attraction in Sri Lankan context has received very limited attention. Against this backdrop, this paper focuses on understanding the role of CSP on talent attraction in the Sri Lankan context. The paper aims to develop a conceptual framework which will bring meaningful insights to investigate the relationships between organizations’ CSP, and their ability to attract the right talent. Drawing from the literature the paper first identifies different factors influencing talent attraction, the dimensions of CSP and the level of impact CSP has had on talent attraction in other contexts. Second, the conceptual framework is presented. Third, the paper suggests an experimental design which can be used in empirical studies along with recommendations for future research. Keywords: Corporate Social Performance, (CSP), Talent Attraction, Talent Management
The Impact of a Hexaconazole Fungicide on Agronomic, Biochemical Parameters and Yield Components of Green Beans PhaseolusVulgaris cv. Djedida

The use of synthetic phytosanitary products has proved to be very effective in controlling crop diseases and pests in a significant number of cases, however, many studies and studies concern the presence of these molecules in the soil, contamination of the waters we have to say confirmed the degradation of living ecosystems. The aim of this work is to verify the effect of the fungicide Hexaconazole on agronomic, biochemical markers and enzymatic activity of a legume green bean Phaseolus vulgaris, cv. Djedida. Four treatment doses were chosen with control namely Dose1 (0.4ml/l), Dose2 (0.8ml/l), dose3 (1.2ml/l), Dose4 (1.6ml/l). The obtained results show that all variables studied agronomic, physiologic and enzymatic are relatively stable for plants treated with low doses0.4ml/l and 0.8ml/l. against, the plants treated by highest doses D3 and D4 recorded the lowest values. The dose effect is decisive and proportional to the applied level. The analysis of the mechanisms of response to oxidative stress or oxidative stressxenobiotic interactions may therefore provide a better understanding of the processes of response to xenobiotic.
Taking Situational Factors into Account when Resolving Anaphora: an Approach based on Salience and Events – DRAFT VERSION

A naphora resolution in hum an-m achine dialogue system s is often based on m odels and algorithm s that w ere designed for text. B ut dialogue brings out a situation, i.e., an im m ediate physical environm ent and events that are perceived sim ultaneously by the participants. T his situation can be at the origin of referential expressions called exophora, antecedentless anaphora or anaphora w ith a non-linguistic antecedent. A ttributing som e referents to such expressions is difficult for tw o reasons. F irst, because situational factors are num erous and im plicit. S econd, because am biguities can appear betw een a potential situational antecedent and a potential linguistic one. In this paper w e focus on the nature of situational factors and w e investigate how they can be taken into account w hen doing anaphora resolution in dialogue and then in text. O ur points of departure are the notion of salience and the nature of the events that intervene in dialogue and that can be described in text. W e propose a characterization of such events and w e draw som e theoretical conclusions on the principles that can be added to existing anaphora resolution algorithm s.
Setting the Stage for Reflective Practice: Multimedia Case Study Development

A multidisciplinary team of college faculty and professional educators are collaborating on a four-year National Science Foundation project to develop multimedia case studies to help teachers address the needs of all students, including students with disabilities, within a standardsbased mathematics curriculum. Now in the second year of the project, Mathematics for All collaborators are finalizing five video case studies. This qualitative study of the project, based on observations, interviews, surveys, meeting notes and reflections from the college faculty, reveal that the process of working together to create the multimedia case studies has influenced college faculty thinking in at least three important ways: 1) media are newly seen as an artifact of learning in higher education classrooms 2) faculty members are connected in new ways to the learning process in elementary classrooms and 3) the collaboration has created new content and pedagogical content knowledge for special education and mathematics educators.
Correlation between Urinary Albumin to Creatinine Ratio and In-hospital Cardiac Events among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Background: Urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (UACR) is an important predictor of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). However, limited data is available regarding its correlation with in-hospital MACE in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The aim of the current study was to find out the correlation between UACR and in-hospital MACE among patients with AMI. Methods: 651 AMI patients (mean age: 54.4 ± 12.6 years, male/female: 522/129, STEMI/NSTEMI: 438/213) admitted from November 2013 to December 2014 were enrolled in this observational study. The UACR was measured from spot urine samples collected on admission day. Data on patient’s demography, existence of traditional risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and baseline clinical parameters were recorded on admission day. The patients were categorized into three groups - normoalbuminuria (UACR less than 30mg/gCr, n = 404), microalbuminuria (UACR between 30 to 299 mg/gCr, n = 215) and macroalbuminuria (UACR equal to or greater than 300 mg/ gCr, n = 32). For each enrolled patients, the incidences of specified in-hospital MACE (recurrent angina, acute heart failure, arrhythmia, atrio-ventricular conduction disorders, mechanical complications, cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest) were recorded throughout the hospital staying period. The comparison of categorical variables between the groups was performed using the chisquare test. p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The baseline characteristics (age, male gender, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, family history of CVD, smoking) of three groups were statistically similar. Compared to normoalbuminuria group, the incidences of MACE were significantly higher in micro and macro albuminuria group (p-value: normo vs. micro 0.001 and normo vs. macro 0.006). However, the occurrences of MACE in microalbuminuria group were statistically similar to those of macroalbuminuria group (p-value: micro vs. macro 0.284). Conclusion: Urinary albumin to creatinine ratio, at a level of micro and macro albuminuria, was associated with greater incidence of in-hospital MACE compared to its normal level in patients with AMI. Cardiovasc. j. 2016; 8(2): 90-93
Simulating an optimal continuous review inventory policy online retail

In the online channel of grocery retailers, customers typically define a specific date and time at which they want to receive their orders. This customer order time window provides additional flexibility, which can be used to improve the policy for optimizing inventory. This improvement allows to better adjust the ordering point and the ordering quantity, leading to a decrease in the total cost, which comprises the ordering, holding and stockout costs. This study is based on a previous thesis, where the (s, Q) inventory policy explicitly accounts for the ordering window. The policy considers that the customer demand as well as the customer ordering window are stochastic. In this thesis, we extend and refine the policy by exploring the multiple on order setting, which introduces more complex and extreme scenarios to the inventory system with ordering windows. The validations were performed using simulation for a variety of parameter configurations. The simulator was implemented in Excel, using VBA, and the policy was optimized via numerical optimization using MatLab. The revised policy proved to be appropriate both for single and multiple on order scenarios. There is an avenue of future research to be explored in this online retail setting, particularly in the exploration of inventory policies that account for the ordering window.
Gambling as a public health issue: The critical role of the local environment

This paper discusses gambling as a public health concern and outlines why local circumstances are central to such concerns. Using the framework of compositional and contextual factors to frame discussions, it is argued that the local circumstances of individuals and communities are critical to whether gambling activity is problematic. Unlike other similar public health issues for which there are clear parameters defining what is a problem and how severe the problem is, it is argued here that gamblingrelated problems are determined almost entirely by the circumstances in which the activity is occurring. As such, strategies designed to prevent or minimise gamblingrelated problems should target the local contextual environment and not just focus on the gamblers themselves, as has tended to occur to date.
A Review of Libyan's Economy, Structural Changes and Development Patterns

As economic reform programmes became the new phenomena within the last two decades, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Saudi Arabia like most developing countries experienced the same programme aiming at achieving a stabilisation in its economy. They did so because they found themselves incapable of earning enough foreign exchange in order to protect their currencies. Indeed, many of these countries started transforming their economies from socialist, stateowned to market-based economies [1]. As the Libyan economy was on the edge of collapsing in 1999, the government undertook a rigid economic programme reform that would transform the economy from a socialist state-planned to a capital-based economy.
lmpact of aluminium sulphate fertiliser on selected soil properties and the efficiency and quality of pine seedlings in the forest ground tree nursery

Abstract The alkalisation of soil is a common phenomenon in forest ground nurseries. Liming, inadequate fertilisation and the use of hard water for irrigation are the main reasons for this alkalisation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fertilisation with aluminium sulphate on soil pH, the activity of selected soil enzymes, efficiency as well as the growth parameters of pine seedlings. The study was conducted in a forest nursery, on a plot with soil pH 6.4 in water and 5.9 in 1M KCl. Such a pH is not conducive to the production of conifer seedlings, particularly pines. Two different doses of aluminium sulphate fertiliser were applied: 740 kg ha-1 and 1110 kg ha-1. Both doses significantly reduced the soil pH, whereas soil enzyme activity did not change. The lower dose had a positive impact on the growth parameters of pine seedlings, while the higher dose led to their deterioration. We observed statistically significant differences in average primary and lateral root lengths, number of short roots, and thickness of the neck root of seedlings. One- and 2-year-old seedlings did not show symptoms of nutrient deficiency and neither did concentrations of the investigated macronutrients and selected micronutrients in needles indicate such. After applying the higher fertiliser dose, we observed a favourable change in the composition of mycorrhizae. Out of the potential seedling pathogens we found Cylindrocarpon spp. , Fusarium spp. ,Phytophthora spp. , Pythium spp. and Rhizoctonia solani of which the most frequent were Fusarium oxysporom, Pythium spp. and R. solani. Their occurrence frequency differed between the treatments used in this experiment. This study confirms the positive effects of a low aluminium dose on the performance and growth parameters of pine seedlings. However, on the basis of the conducted experiments, it is difficult to say, whether this positive effect is due to a direct action of aluminium on the seedlings or rather an indirect effect caused by lowering the soil pH, which in tum impacts on mycorrhizae composition and hence pathogen development.
Parasitological And Immunopathological Responses Balb/C Mice With Concomitant Schistosoma Mansoni And Plasmodium Berghei Infections

Schistosomiasis and malaria often occur in the same area. This study investigated the effect in BALB/c mice harbouring a schistosomiasis-malaria co-infection. Mice infected with S. mansoni were divided into three groups, which were super-infected at weeks 4, 5, and 6 post-infection with P. berghei. There were uninfected and single-infected controls. Sampling was at day 4 and 7 post-super-infection. The following assays were carried out: parasitaemia, perfusion for worm recovery, IgG ELISA, gross and histopathology. Co-infected mice had: higher malaria parasitemia, higher IgG responses, lower worm counts, smaller granulomas compared to the single-infected mice. This study showed that co-infections with schistosome and malaria parasites aggravated malaria severity, as shown by increased parasitemia and severe gross pathology of liver and spleen in the coinfected mice. In contrast, malaria conferred protection to S. mansoni infection, as demonstrated by reduced worm counts and granuloma sizes and high schistosme-specific IgG levels in the co-infected mice.
Grazing impacts on sagebrush communities of central Utah

— Twenty-three study sites were established in the sagebrush communities bordering Utah Lake. Relic (ungrazed) and grazed stands were represented in the sample. Differences in species composition, vegetation, and soil characteristics were assessed. Major differences in species composition and vegetative characteristics were due to the influence of grazing. Major changes were loss of native perennial grass cover, and increases in cover from introduced annual species. Differences in the soil characteristics were due to habitat rather than grazing influences. When the pioneers first came into Utah Valley in 1847, they found a vast area of beauty and plenty in which they could successfully build homes, establish farms, and nm large herds of sheep, cattle, and horses. Following settlement, grazing and its effects were seen throughout Utah and the West. Through the journals and records of early pioneers and explorers, we are able to confirm the fact that there has been a great deal of vegetation change in the last century and a half, resulting in widespread changes in the commimities of sagebrush and other desert vegetation. The lands in which the first pioneers settled contained great quantities of palatable grasses and other forage plants (Cottam 1961, Wakefield 1936). Many settlers owned large herds, and native forage supplies became depleted from the constant grazing and regrazing of the land. This depletion opened the way for increases in such woody plants as sagebrush and juniper, along with other unpalatable species. In 1877, John D. Lee was taken back to be executed at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a once beautiful green valley and favorite resting area for travelers on the Spanish Trail; he was asked to identify the spot on which he had led the dreadful massacre some twenty years before. He could not do it. He was hardly able to recognize the valley at all, describing it as being "God-forsaken" (Birney
Cold hardening and dehardening in Salix

The variation in cold hardiness in Salix in the autumn was investigated using clones of different geographic origins. In late growing season, the variation was small and inversely related to a phenotypic variation in potential growth rate. When growth had stopped in response to the reduction in daylength, however, large differences in cold hardiness developed. Northern/continental clones started cold hardening up to two months earlier and showed up to three times higher inherent rates of cold hardening than the southern/maritime ones. The two components of cold hardening, the timing of onset and the inherent rate, seemed to be separately inherited traits, as judged from analyses of the prodigy of a crossing between an early-and-rapidly hardening clone and a late-and-slowly hardening one. This suggests that cold hardiness can be improved without adversely affecting growth by selecting for a late onset of cold hardening combined with a rapid rate. Also, in the early stages, cold hardening was more sensitive to low, non-freezing temperatures in the southern/maritime clones than in the northern/continental ones. Cold hardening of stems in the autumn could be monitored from the accumulation of sugars, most predominantly sucrose, raffinose and stachyose. The accumulation of sucrose started already with the cessation of growth, whilst the accumulation of raffinose and stachyose started later and was stimulated by cool temperatures. Multivariate models using sugar data could explain 76% of the variation in cold hardiness in the early stages of hardening. Changes in levels of sugars and other compounds during cold hardening could be assessed non-intrusively from the visible and infrared reflectance spectra of stems. Multivariate models using spectral data could predict up to 96% of the variation in cold hardiness. This technique is expected to greatly facilitate breeding for improved cold hardiness by allowing rapid screening of large populations. The variation in cold hardiness in spring was also investigated. Loss of cold hardiness in spring was closely related to the bursting of buds. A relatively large genetic variation in the temperature requirement for bud burst was demonstrated indicating that this might be modified in sensitive clones to improve their cold hardiness in spring.
L’ARTICOLO ITALIANO NELL’INTERLINGUA DI APPRENDENTI SINOFONI: PROBLEMATICHE ACQUISIZIONALI E CONSIDERAZIONI GLOTTODIDATTICHE

Quali sono le principali problematiche acquisizionali che caratterizzano l’apprendimento dell’articolo italiano da parte di apprendenti sinofoni? Da cosa dipende la forte variabilita che si riscontra nello sviluppo di tale categoria linguistica ai livelli iniziali di apprendimento? Il presente contributo tenta di rispondere a questi due quesiti, presentando i diversi strumenti linguistici a disposizione di italiano e cinese per esprimere il concetto di definitezza e mettendo in luce quali sono i principali aspetti coinvolti nella selezione dell’articolo indeterminativo e determinativo italiano. Il contributo si conclude fornendo alcuni spunti relativi alla didattica di questo elemento linguistico: in particolare si vuole riflettere sulla necessita di un insegnamento mirato e su quali potrebbero essere le metodologie piu adeguate affinche l’intervento didattico possa risultare efficace. Italian articles in chinese speaking learners’ interlanguage: acquisitional problems and glottodidactic reflections What are the main learning challenges which characterize Chinese speakers when learning Italian articles? What causes the great variability in the development of this linguistic category at the beginning stages of learning? This article attempts to respond to these two questions, presenting the different linguistic tools available for Italian and Chinese to express the concepts of definiteness and highlights the main aspects involved in choosing the indefinite and definite articles in Italian. The article concludes with a few teaching suggestions regarding this linguistic element: especially on the need for targeted teaching and which methodologies are most appropriate for effective teaching.
Modelling observations of the inner gas and dust coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using ROSINA/COPS and OSIRIS data: First results

Context. This paper describes the initial modelling of gas and dust data acquired in August and September 2014 from the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft when it was in close proximity to the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Aims. This work is an attempt to provide a self-consistent model of the innermost gas and dust coma of the comet, as constrained by the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) data set for the gas and by the Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) data set for the dust. Methods. The model uses a previously developed shape model for the nucleus, and from this the water sublimation rate and gas temperatures at the surface are computed with a simple thermal model. The gas expansion is modelled with a 3D parallel implementation of a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo algorithm. A dust drag algorithm is then used to produce dust densities in the coma, which are then converted to brightnesses using Mie theory and a line-of-sight integration. Results. We show that a purely insolation-driven model for surface outgassing does not produce a reasonable fit to ROSINA/COPS data. A stronger source in the “neck” region of the nucleus (region Hapi) is needed to match the observed modulation of the gas density in detail. This agrees with OSIRIS data, which shows that the dust emission from the “neck” was dominant in the August-September 2014 time frame. The current model matches this observation reasonably if a power index of 2-3 for the dust size distribution is used. A better match to the OSIRIS data is seen by using a single large particle size for the coma. Conclusions. We have shown possible solutions to the gas and dust distributions in the inner coma, which are consistent with ROSINA and OSIRIS data.