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Administrative Coordination in Nonprofit Human Service Delivery Networks

Nonprofit human service organizations operating within the same regional network are often faced with dual pressure to compete as well as coordinate administrative operations (by sharing funding, staff, or space) to enhance efficiency. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that competing organizations coordinate, despite the risks. Trust, or perceived trustworthiness between two organizations may mitigate the negative influence of competition on coordination, however there have been few explicit tests of this hypothesis among nonprofit organizations. Drawing on quantitative data collected from a network of 36 nonprofit children’s behavioral health organizations, this article empirically tests how competition and perceived trustworthiness interact to influence administrative coordination. Results support the hypothesis that trustworthiness moderates the influence of competition on administrative coordination. Findings suggest that as competing nonprofit leaders build trust, the more their agencies coordinate their administrative functions. This study highlights the importance of leaders’ perceptions for organizational strategy.
Careers Forum

'Find your dream job online! ' 'Electronic job search revolution! ' Ofall the hype surrounding theinternet, oneofthe biggest claims may be how information technology ischanging theway people look for jobs. Ahuge number ofelectronic job resources areavailable: resume posting sites, job vacancy databases, employer websites, discussion boards and newsgroups, industry salary and information sites, and general career information sites. The internet gives jobseekers access to vast amounts of information about vacancies and employers, 24-hour availability, broader geographic reach, networking, career development advice, andsimplified resume distribution (Dikel, 2001). For recruiters andemployers, the internet can speed upthe hiring process, provide a large pool ofapplicants, andreduce advertising andothercosts (Pearce & Tuten 2001). But how effective isonline job searching? Are traditional methods now a waste oftime? Like everything else in cyberspace, online job hunting is constantly changing. For example, a 1999 Fortune magazine cover announced: 'Igot my job online andsoon sowill you' (Useem, 1999). Now a 2001 article advises: 'Enjoy being unemployed? Keep job hunting online' (Fisher, 2001). And measuring any kind ofinternet useisa perilous process a variety ofconflicting statistics can be found. This article investigates some myths andrealities of job searching in the21st century.
Reliability of Chest Wall Mobility and Its Correlation with Lung Functions in Healthy Nonsmokers, Healthy Smokers, and Patients with COPD

Chest wall circumference measurements are common evaluation methods in clinical settings by therapists in order to obtain chest wall mobility. Previous published results have been conflicting, and there is a lot of variability in the method of testing, which needs testing in different conditions. Seventy subjects (25 healthy nonsmokers, 25 healthy smokers, and 20 COPD) aged between 18 and 70 years participated in the study. Upper and lower chest expansion (CE) measurements (2 levels) are performed with cloth inch tape. Intrarater (between day) and interrater (within-day) reliability of CE measurements was evaluated by two examiners. Lung function parameters, forced expiratory volume in first second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1/FVC, and vital capacity (VC) were measured using a computerized spirometer (Spiro lab 3). The intrarater reliability for upper and lower CE showed very good agreement with intraclass correlation (ICC) values between 0.90 and 0.93 for upper CE and 0.85 to 0.86 for lower CE. The interrater reliability for upper CE showed good to very good agreement with ICC values ranging between 0.78 and 0.83, and lower CE showed very good agreement with ICC values ranging between 0.82 and 0.84. Upper and lower CE showed a significant and positive correlation with all lung function parameters, with strong correlation with FEV1/FVC (r = 0.68). Upper and lower CE measurements with inch tape showed good intra- and interrater reliability and reproducibility in healthy nonsmokers, healthy smokers, and COPD subjects. Compared to upper, lower CE correlated well with the lung function parameters. Upper and lower CE may be more useful in clinical practice to evaluate chest mobility and to give indirect information on lung function but interpretation with caution is required when considering implementation into clinical setting.
Effect of large-scale environmental variables and human pressure on distribution patterns of exotic continental fish in east Algeria

This study aims to identify large-scale environmental variables that explain the distribution of continental exotic fish across five bioclimatic regions in east Algeria (160,000 km²), North Africa. Fish communities were sampled at 39 sites from 2007 to 2010. Seven environmental variables were investigated: habitat type, altitude, latitude, longitude, bioclimatic region, minimum and maximum air temperatures and human pressure. The common carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758) and the silver carp (Hypophtalmichthys molitrix Valenciennes, 1844) were the most widespread exotic species. Almost all exotic fishes were distributed over desert and sub-humid bioclimatic scales. Reservoirs represent the type of habitat that houses the greatest exotic species richness. The distribution pattern of exotic fishes was mainly predetermined by the type of habitat. Alien ichtyofauna colonizes primarily man-made hydrosystems regardless of environmental variables or the degree of human pressure, making these habitats more vuln.
A review of the past, the present, and the future of fishers' knowledge research: a challenge to established fisheries science

Fishers’ knowledge research is an approach to fisheries research that has a relatively long history, yet has generally failed to become integrated into the fisheries science mainstream alongside approaches that rely primarily on the knowledge of professional scientists. Its continued position on the margins of fisheries science has not however stopped fishers’ knowledge researchers from publishing an expanding literature, which they often use to advocate for the greater consideration of fishers’ knowledge by fisheries scientists and managers. They believe that the unique and often highly qualitative knowledge of fishers could inform better decision-making, resulting in improved socio-ecological outcomes for fisheries. This review first outlines the scope of the fishers’ knowledge literature, before outlining five waves of fishers’ knowledge research that have developed over the last century. For each wave, the nature of the fishers’ knowledge documented during it is noted, as is the research and dissemination approach taken by its practitioners. The impact of that wave on mainstream fisheries science is then assessed. Overall, it is found that only one wave of fishers’ knowledge research is beginning to have consistent success integrating with mainstream fisheries science, a wave that omits the research of many of the unique elements of fishers’ knowledge. Other waves have died out, or are in danger of dying out, either because they have failed to be noticed by mainstream fisheries scientists or because mainstream fisheries scientists have not welcomed their outputs. It is summarized that fishers’ knowledge research will only continue as a productive activity if mainstream fisheries scientists begin to open their discipline to other knowledge cultures and if fishers’ knowledge researchers facilitate this action by disseminating their research so that it is more accessible to these scientists.
Design and evaluation of matrices of Eudragit with polycarbophil and carbopol for colon-specific delivery

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of incorporating pH-responsive polymers Eudragit (L100 or S100) in matrix bases composed of hydrophilic polymers polycarbophil and carbopol to design oral controlled release formulations with sigmoidal release profile for colon-specific delivery. Matrix tablets were prepared by wet granulation technique using indomethacin as model drug and were characterized for physical parameters, in vitro drug release, release kinetics, and stability on storage. The gastrointestinal (GI) transit of selected formulations was also investigated in human subjects using gamma scintigraphy. In vitro release studies indicated that the presence of pH-sensitive polymers in hydrophilic polymer base retarded the initial release significantly (10–15% release in 6 h) followed with controlled release for the next 8–10 h in simulated GI fluid pH (without enzymes). The presence of Eudragit in hydrophilic matrix base retarded the swelling of the matrix base in acidic to weakly acidic pH, but in alkaline pH, enhancement in drug release rate was observed due to the dissolution of Eudragit from the base resulting in a porous matrix structure, resulting in around 80–90% release in 14 h of study. In vivo gamma scintigraphy studies in healthy human subjects proved that the formulations had acceptable matrix strength to withstand gastric and colonic transit. The mean colonic residence time of selected designed formulations varied between 15 and 19 h. Such a matrix design could have potential application as colon-specific drug delivery systems with pH- and time-dependent drug release profile.
Unions et intersections de modèles pour l'analyse des systèmes d'information

En systeme d'information, l'integration de modeles consiste a regrouper au sein d'un unique modele l'ensemble des entites metiers de plusieurs modeles connectes d'un point de vue thematique. Dans cette communication, cinq operations sont proposees afin d'assister cette in-tegration et ameliorer les modeles structurels : la premiere cree un modele alignement montrant les correspondances entre les modeles, la seconde produit deux modeles union et la troisieme produit deux modeles intersection avec les seuls elements communs a tous les modeles. Les mo-deles union et intersection sont calcules suivant soit un mecanisme reposant sur la semantique des entites metiers soit un mecanisme fonde sur la description binaire de ces entites. Quel que soit le mecanisme utilise, les modeles union sont les plus petits des unions des modeles et les modeles intersection, noyau de tous les modeles, sont les plus grands des intersections des mo-deles. Ces cinq operations sont realisees a l'aide de l'Analyse Formelle de Concepts (AFC).
Developmental disturbances in Rana esculenta tadpoles and metamorphs

Rana esculenta progeny from experimental crosses (using R. esculenta from natural lineages and F1 Ram ridihztncia x Rnrlo lessonarr), reared in artificial ponds and in cages immersed in natural breeding ponds, showed three different types of malformations reflecting developmental disturbances, each affecting few individuals overall. Giant tadpoles arrested development at the foot-paddle stage, independent from a size at metamorphosisitime to metamorphosis trade-off that may be under selection. The fused nostrils/eyeless syndrome probably reflects a disturbed gastrulation. The observed polymely, affecting the hind limbs, may result from infectious agents in pond water used to inoculate the tanks. Although known parentage and distribution among rearing tanks for each of the three malformations exclude a simple genetic basis and a direct influence of particular human-caused factors, it is not possible to further discriminate among genetic, biotically-induced, and non-biotically induced environmental causes of the developmental disturbances and their interactions. Direct experimental approaches will be needed to disentangle these possibilities and to assess their relative contributions to the observed decline of amphibian populations.
Comparison between two hay based diets in buffalo nutrition: microbiological characteristics of milk, curd and mozzarella cheese

Abstract Two groups of twenty milking Mediterranean buffalo cows were fed two diets, with the same energy and protein content, based on Italian ryegrass hay (diet G1) and Italian ryegrass hay silage (diet G2). Presumptive lactobacilli and lactococci were determined on milk, curd and mozzarella cheese, collected at 30, 60, 90 days from the beginning of the trial. Milk and mozzarella cheese at 30, 60, 90 days showed significantly higher microbial counts in diet G2 with respect to diet G1, apart from lactococci in milk at 90 days. For curd at 30, 60, 90 days the numbers of lactobacilli and lactococci in diet G1 were significantly higher with respect to diet G2, apart from lactococci at 30 days. Genetic analysis by 16S rDNA characterization of colonies, randomly isolated, showed in diet G2 also the presence of not lactic species. Probably Italian ryegrass hay silage, present in diet G2, could bring bacteria in the environment and consequently in the milk that are detrimental for the proper growing of lactic microflora in the curd and that are resistant to the high temperature used in the mozzarella cheese making process.
Determining geographic patterns of migration and dispersal using stable isotopes in keratins

Abstract Stable isotopes in metabolically inert tissues of migratory animals can be used to infer migratory and dispersal histories. The general approach for estimating geographic origins of migratory animals based on stable isotope values of their keratinous tissues is to develop or calibrate an assignment model based on tissues of known geographic origin. This paper reviews the general forms and evaluates the application of the 3 assignment approaches. Two of these approaches are considered as nominal assignment frameworks because they require prior declaration of named locations as the set of candidate origins. Individual samples can be sorted into the most likely location using a classification tree or a likelihood-based assignment test. The 3rd and more recent approach is considered a continuous assignment framework because it does not require a predetermined list of candidate locations. This approach depends on an underlying mechanistic geographic model of variation in isotope values. Such models can be developed directly from spatially intensive sampling of keratins or by calibrating a spatial model for isotopes in physical (water or soil) or biological (dietary species) resources. Productive approaches to increase spatial resolution of assignment models will use experiments designed to identify specific geographic-based, variance-generating mechanisms, especially if the contributing factors can be quantified for animals that are released back to the wild.
Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Cucumber Seedlings as Affected by Elevated Air and Root-zone Temperatures

Relative contributions of supraoptimal air and root-zone temperatures on the growth inhibition of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) during hot seasons were evaluated. Seedlings of a Chinese cultivar, Sangoh (Ji huang gua 3) and a Japanese cultivar, Sharp I were grown in water culture for 8 days in controlled environment rooms. The environmental conditions were : 26/26 °C, 26/37 °C, 37/26 °C or 37/37 °C daytime air/root-zone temperature regimes (air temperature in the night was 5 °C lower than that in the day), 80/90 % relative air humidity, and a 15-hr photoperiod of ca. 480 μmol•m-2•s-1 PPFD.Temperature of leaves was approximately equal to air temperature during the daytime. Although plants thrived best at 26/26 °C and worst at 37/37 °C combinations, when growth at 26/37 °C and 37/26 °C regimes was compared, high air temperature was more inhibitory than high root-zone temperature. Root growth, leaf expansion rate, leaf water content, photosynthetic rate and leaf mineral concentrations were reduced more severely by high root-zone temperature. Seedlings of 'Sangoh' were significantly more tolerant to high root-zone temperature than were those of 'Sharp I'. Possible causes of growth inhibition by high air temperature compared to that by high root-zone temperature and the mechanisms of the cultivarietal difference in thermotolerance of cucumber plants are discussed.
Sex-Specific Roost Selection by Bats in Clearfell Harvested Plantation Forest: Improved Knowledge Advises Management

To maximize energetic savings, female bats often roost communally whilst pregnant or with non-volant dependents, whereas male bats more often roost alone; however, differences in selection of roosts by sex have not often been investigated. Better understanding of female colony locations could focus management to protect the majority of bats. New Zealand's long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) roost in exotic plantation forest, where sex-specific roost selection has not been investigated, and therefore such management is not possible. We investigated sex-specific roost selection by long-tailed bats for the first time. Roosts and paired nonroosts were characterized testing predictions that males and females select roosts that differ from non-roosts, and males and females select different roosts. Females and males chose Pinus radiata roosts that differed from non-roost trees. Results suggest each sex chose roosts that maximized energetic savings. Female bats used roosts closer to water sources, that warmed earlier in the day, which allowed maintenance of high temperatures. Males appeared to choose roosts that allowed torpor use for long periods of the day. Males may be less selective with their roost locations than females, as they roosted further from water sources. This could allow persistence of male bats in marginal habitat. As all female long-tailed bats chose roosts within 150 m of waterways, management to protect bats could be focused here. To protect bats least able to escape when roosts are harvested, harvest of forest stands selected by female bats as roost sites should be planned when bats are not heavily pregnant nor have non-volant dependents.
Análise fitossociológica de um fragmento de floresta estacional decidual no município de Jaguari, RS

A study was made in a fragment from a Deciduous Seasonal Forest, in Sao Roque locality, Jaguari county, RS, Brazil, with the objective of characterizing its diversity and the most important species in the forest fragment composition. For the evaluation and identification of the forest species with CBH = 30 cm there were measured, systematically, 14 sample units with 10x100 m (1000 m2). In these samples there was made an evaluation of vegetation specie, CBH, total height, commercial height, sociological position and canopy class. Was found the occurrence of 54 forest species and 28 families. The Shannons diversity index was 3.63 and shows the great diversity of the fragment. The Sapindaceae, Myrtaceae and Meliaceae families were the most representative in the forest fragment studied. The species with the most important value were Cupania vernalis, Patagonula americana e Cabralea canjerana. In the canopy forest, the dominant species were Patagonula americana, Cabralea canjerana e Luehea divarica.
Universitäres Alumni-Management in Online Social Networks

Online Social Networks (OSN) bieten eine ausgezeichnete Moglichkeit fur Hochschulen, ihre ehemaligen Studierenden zu vernetzen. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, den State of the Art der Nutzung von OSN fur die Alumni Arbeit zu beschreiben. Hierzu haben wir mit einer dreistufigen Suchstrategie fur insgesamt 109 deutsche Universitaten deren Prasenzen fur Alumni Gemeinschaften identifiziert, ausgewertet und miteinander verglichen. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen grose Unterschiede. Nur wenige Universitaten verzichten auf die Nutzung eines OSN fur die Alumni Arbeit, in der Regel nutzen sie mehrere. Die auf geschaftliche Ziele ausgerichteten Netze Xing und LinkedIn werden bevorzugt. Anhand der Indikatoren Reichweite, Aktivitat und Resonanz haben wir Ranglisten erstellt, die zeigen, welche Universitaten sich in der Spitzengruppe befinden und welche noch Nachholbedarf haben.
Alternative pollinator taxa are equally efficient but not as effective as the honeybee in a mass flowering crop

Summary 1. The honeybee Apis mellifera is currently in decline worldwide because of the combined impacts of Colony Collapse Disorder and the Varroa destructor mite. In order to gain a balanced perspective of the importance of both wild and managed pollination services, it is essential to compare these services directly, ap riori, within a cropping landscape. This process will determine the capacity of other flower visitors to act as honeybee replacements. 2. In a highly modified New Zealand agricultural landscape, we compared the pollination services provided by managed honeybees to unmanaged pollinator taxa (including flies) within a Brassica rapa var. chinensis mass flowering crop. 3. We evaluate overall pollinator effectiveness by separating the pollination service into two components: efficiency (i.e. per visit pollen deposition) and visit rate (i.e. pollinator abundance per available flower and the number of flower visits per minute). 4. We observed 31 species attending flowers of B. rapa . I n addition toA. mellifera, seven insect species visited flowers frequently. These were three other bees (Lasioglossum sordidum, Bombus terrestris and Leioproctus sp.) and four flies (Dilophus nigrostigma, Melanostoma fasciatum, Melangyna novae-zelandiae and Eristalis tenax). 5. Two bee species, Bombus terrestris and Leioproctus sp. and one fly, Eristalis tenax were as efficient as the honeybee and as effective (in terms of rate of flower visitation). A higher honeybee abundance, however, resulted in it being the more effective pollinator overall. 6. Synthesis and applications. Alternative land management practices that increase the population sizes of unmanaged pollinator taxa to levels resulting in visitation frequencies as high as A. mellifera, have the potential to replace services provided by the honeybee. This will require a thorough investigation of each taxon’s intrinsic biology and a change in land management practices to ensure year round refuge, feeding, nesting and other resource requirements of pollinator taxa are met.
The social determinants of health and individuals with upper limb loss

UPPER LIMB LOSS by Gabrielle Levesque B.Sc. (Hons., Psychology), University of New Brunswick, 2012 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master’s in Applied Health Services Research in the Graduate Academic Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies Supervisors: Edmund Biden, DPhil, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Wendy Hill, BScOT, Research Occupational Therapist, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Water purifier quality monitoring using IoT

- Water is vital resource for life. Drinking safe water is important aspect for a healthy life. In modern world water pollution is one of the major cause for various types of water-borne diseases, 40% of the deaths worldwide are caused by water pollution. The clean and safe drinking water is getting depleted every second hence water purification is todays need. World bank estimates that 21% of communicable diseases in India are related to unsafe water, contamination has been a long standing problem in our country. The older methods are unable to monitor the water quality in real time and notify the user about the contamination. So, it is necessary to develop a real time water quality monitoring and notification system. Smart solutions for water quality monitoring are gaining importance with advancement in communication technology. Water quality depends on pH, turbidity, temperature along with some other factors are significant, and will be monitored by the system using sensors, through wifi system the sensor output data is sent to concern authority for further steps to improve water quality. The proposed system is portable, automatic water quality monitoring and notification system saves time and human resources. The notification will be sent to authorized person when sensors will detect bad water quality. It is low cost system for real time water quality monitoring.