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Change Management as a Critical Success Factor in e-Government Implementation
Authors: Nograšek Janja 
Published: September 2012

Change Management as a Critical Success Factor in e-Government Implementation
Change management in e-government implementation is a very complex issue. E-government services are frequently distributed over different IT systems and organizations. There are also events from outside the public administration that cause changes such as government policies and legislation, public-private partnership, etc., and finally a huge resistance to change exists in public administration proverbial. Another problem is that the e-government is predominantly seen only as a technology mission and not as an organizational transformation issue. Those are probably the main reasons that the existing literature about change management in e-government is still missing at large. There are articles dealing with some aspects of changes affected by the new technology implementation, however, there is no comprehensive framework that would identify changes that have to be managed in e-government implementation. Therefore, the main aim of the paper is to identify a comprehensive set of changes that have to be considered in e-government implementation and the role of leadership in such processes. Finally, the paper proposes a conceptual model of change management in e-government implementation.
Invited article: Adaptability
Authors: Rud Olivia 
Published: September 2012

Invited article: Adaptability
For the last several decades, organizations have dealt with economic shifts using change management. Based on the new science, there are two major flaws with this approach. First, the word change implies an event with an ending. Second, it implies that change can be managed. In a world of economic volatility, this approach is no longer viable. The continuous climate of uncertainty and volatility demands another view, one that supports adaptability and resilience.
Social Network Mixing Patterns In Mergers & Acquisitions - A Simulation Experiment
Authors: Fabac Robert , Schatten Markus , Đuričin Tomislav 
Published: September 2012

Social Network Mixing Patterns In Mergers & Acquisitions - A Simulation Experiment
In the contemporary world of global business and continuously growing competition, organizations tend to use mergers and acquisitions to enforce their position on the market. The future organization's design is a critical success factor in such undertakings. The field of social network analysis can enhance our uderstanding of these processes as it lets us reason about the development of networks, regardless of their origin. The analysis of mixing patterns is particularly useful as it provides an insight into how nodes in a network connect with each other. We hypothesize that organizational networks with compatible mixing patterns will be integrated more successfully. After conducting a simulation experiment, we suggest an integration model based on the analysis of network assortativity. The model can be a guideline for organizational integration, such as occurs in mergers and acquisitions.
Renewable Resources, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth
Authors: Zhang Wei-Bin 
Published: September 2012

Renewable Resources, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth
This paper proposes a dynamic economic model with physical capital and renewable resources. Different from most of the neoclassical growth models with renewable resources which are based on microeconomic foundation and neglect physical capital accumulation, this study proposes a growth model with dynamics of renewable resources and physical capital accumulation. The model is a synthesis of the neoclassical growth theory and the traditional dynamic models of renewable resources with an alternative approach to household behavior. The model describes a dynamic interdependence among physical accumulation, resource change, and division of labor under perfect competition. Because of its refined economic structure, our study enables some interactions among economic variables which are not found in the existing literature on economic growth with renewable resources. We simulate the model to demonstrate the existence of equilibrium points and motion of the dynamic system. Our comparative dynamic analysis shows, for instance, that a rise in the propensity to consume the renewable resource increases the interest rate and reduces the national and production sector's capital stocks, wage rate and level of the consumption good. Moreover, it initially reduces and then increases the capital stocks of the resource sector and the consumption and price of the renewable resource. The stock of the renewable resource is initially increased and then reduced. Finally, labor is redistributed from the production to the resource sector.
Business Trends and Tendencies in Organization Design and Work Design Practice: Identifying Cause-and-Effect Relationships
Authors: Hernaus Tomislav 
Published: September 2012

Business Trends and Tendencies in Organization Design and Work Design Practice: Identifying Cause-and-Effect Relationships
Current global business environment has a strong impact on theory and practice of organizations, as well as on working behavior of their employees. Increased complexity and competitiveness is changing settled ways of organizing and working. The ultimate search for the holy grail of achieving organizational effectiveness through better design solutions is gaining momentum. There are many possible areas and means for improvement. Great opportunities emerge from better understanding of contemporary organization and work environment. To seize them, the link between organization design and work design tendencies will be emphasized. Through an in-depth theoretical research on current business trends and their impact on the changing nature of work in organizations, potentially very strong patterns between these two different environmental categories and levels of analysis will be identified. Our extensive analysis of current trends and tendencies in organization design and work design field will provide useful insights for business practitioners and researchers.
Do macroeconomic factors matter for stock returns? Evidence from estimating a multifactor model on the Croatian market
Authors: Benaković Dubravka , Posedel Petra 
Published: September 2012

Do macroeconomic factors matter for stock returns? Evidence from estimating a multifactor model on the Croatian market
Factor models observe the sensitivity of an asset return as a function of one or more factors. This paper analyzes returns on fourteen stocks of the Croatian capital market in the period from January 2004 to October 2009 using inflation, industrial production, interest rates, market index and oil prices as factors. Both the direction and strength of the relation between the change in factors and returns are investigated. The analyses included fourteen stocks and their sensitivities to factors were estimated. The results show that the market index has the largest statistical significance for all stocks and a positive relation to returns. Interest rates, oil prices and industrial production also marked a positive relation to returns, while inflation had a negative influence. Furthermore, cross-sectional regression with the estimated sensitivities used as independent variables and returns in each month as dependent variables is performed. This analysis resulted in time series of risk premiums for each factor. The most important factor affecting stock prices proved to be the market index, which had a positive risk premium. A statistically significant factor in 2004 and 2008 was also inflation, marking a negative risk premium in 2004 and a positive one in 2008. The remaining three factors have not shown as significant.
Reaching inter-institutional business processes in e-Society
Authors: Vlahović Nikola 
Published: September 2012

Reaching inter-institutional business processes in e-Society
Each business enterprise strives to achieve the most efficient organization of its operations. While business enterprises can influence internal factors of organization, external factors are more rigid. Public organizations have less of an incentive to be efficient. Furthermore, their organization is less favorable since the decision making is centralized and highly formal (i.e. legislative). Adoption of business process orientation (BPO) paradigm, with an emphasis on the management of internal factors of organization, has provided business organizations with substantial savings and improvements in efficiency. However, external factors also have a high potential for improvement of efficiency. For instance, development of supply chains or value chains has proven that external factors can be harnessed to provide additional sources of competitiveness. Other external factors can also be used to improve the performance of individual organizations, an entire industry or economy as a whole. These synergic effects can be achieved through a unified and virtualized communication infrastructure, document exchange and conduct of business transactions. The goal of this paper is to present business environment properties in an e-Society that can be further developed to enhance integration between organizations and public institutions, which in turn can be used to create and manage inter-institutional business processes. This type of processes can promote e-business and e-business models to a new level of efficiency, making a whole industry or national economy comparatively more competitive in international markets.
Correlation of Intra-Articular Ankle Pathology with Cytokine Biomarkers and Matrix Degradation Products
Authors: Giovanni Thomas P. San , Golish S. Raymond , Palanca Ariel , Hanna Lewis S. , Scuderi Gaetano J. 
Published: September 2012

Background: Articular cartilage degeneration is mediated by inflammatory cytokines and fragments of structural matrix proteins. Few studies have examined the role of these biomarkers in intra-articular pathology of the ankle. Methods: Four groups of patients with increasing ankle pathology were enrolled. Group 1 included controls with no pain who underwent unrelated forefoot surgery. Group 2 included patients undergoing arthroscopy with intraoperative mild chondrosis. Group 3 included patients undergoing arthroscopy with moderate/severe chondrosis, osteochondral lesions, impingement, or loose bodies. Group 4 included positive controls with severe arthrosis undergoing ankle arthrodesis/arthroplasty. Ankle fluid was obtained by intra-articular aspiration and was assayed for IL-6, IFN-γ, MCP, MIP-1β, and fibronectin-aggrecan complex (FAC), a matrix-degradation marker. There were 36 patients total, 21 males and 15 females with a mean age 45 (±16; range 18 to 76) years and a mean VAS for pain of 4.7 (±3.5; range 0 to 9). In groups 1 through 4, there were 11, 6, 15 and 4 patients respectively. Results: The mean values of MCP-1 were 49.8 (±8.0) for minimal pathology and 133.9 (±33.0) for substantial pathology (pg/ml). The mean values of the FAC were 2.83 (±1.16) for minimal pathology and 9.62 (±2.23) for substantial pathology (optical density at 450 nm). The groups differed significantly in age, preoperative VAS, FAC, IL-6, and MCP-1 ( p < 0.05). Conclusion: There are differences in FAC and MCP-1 with increasing grades of severity of intra-articular pathology. Clinical Relevance: These tests may play a role in determining the necessity for arthroscopy or intra-articular procedures in equivocal candidates. Level of Evidence: II
Estimation of mass, cosmological constant and Kerr parameter of different galaxies using geodesic motion in Kerr-de Sitter space-time
Authors: Poudel PC , Khanal U 
Published: September 2012

In the present work, geodesic trajectories in Kerr-de Sitter geometry is used to fit the rotation curve of galaxies and estimate the values of mass M, Kerr parameter a, and cosmological constant Ë. In this work, non-linear least square fitting of rotational velocity is used to estimate the some of the parameters. These estimates are mass in the range of (0.12±0.02) x1010 M to (70.37±11.26) x1010 M, the Kerr parameter in the range of (0.7044±0.1127) to (0.9990±0.1598), and the cosmological constant in the range of (1.790±0.286) x10-49 km-2 to (7.523±1.204) x10-42 km-2 for positive value of Ë while - (3.983±0.637) x10-41 km-2 to - (1.860±0.298) x10-42km-2 for negative value of Ë. The negative Ë values are found only for some galaxies with large recessional velocity. This suggests that the transition from anti-de-Sitter to de-Sitter phase with the deposition of vacuum energy may have occurred between the formation of these different galaxies. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6852
Investigation on coagulation efficiency of polyaluminium silicate chloride (PASiC) coagulant
Authors: Gyawali G , Rajbhandari (Nyachhyon) A 
Published: September 2012

Polyaluminium silicate chloride (PASiC) coagulant was synthesized by co-polymerization technique using aluminium salt and polysilicic acid at different OH/Al and Al/Si molar ratios. A synthetic turbid sample was used to investigate the coagulation efficiency of the prepared coagulant. After the coagulant dosing, flocculation time was set for 15 minutes followed by sedimentation for 20 minutes. High performance of coagulant was achieved at 2.5 molar ratio of OH/Al and 5 molar ratio of Al/Si at the optimal pH. The optimum pH range was found to be 7±0.5.The effective coagulant dose for the efficient removal of turbidity was set as 2.5 mg/L. As compared to conventional alum, PASiC has been found to be excellent inorganic polymeric coagulant for turbidity removal from water and residual aluminum was found to be minimal in comparison to conventional alum treatment. Hence, PASiC has proven the potentiality for the turbidity removal in water treatment over conventional alum. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p33-37 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6859
In-vitroculture of Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Yarsagumba) and their associated endophytic fungi of Nepal Himalaya
Authors: Baral Bikash , Maharjan Jyoti 
Published: September 2012

An array of Ophiocordyceps sinensis and its associated endophytic fungi residing in the high Nepalese meadows were isolated and studied for their association and symbiotic effectiveness with the host plant. Fungi are noted to be quite common in nature and some of them have been shown to have adverse effects against insects, nematodes and plant pathogens. Out of the few isolates, different types of associated fungi with Ophiocordyceps sinensis were screened viz. Acremonium strictum, Altenaria solani, Aspergillus flavus, Trichoderma virens, Colletotrichum gloeosporiode, Curvularia lunata, Thielaviopsis sp. and Verticillium sp. The growth rate of the Ophiocordyceps sinensis was found to be very slow as compared to other associated fungi with the diameter of only 1 cm in 2 weeks interval. Fast growing endophytic fungi was found to be Acremonium strictum followed by Altenaria solani. However, the maintenance of the pure culture of the Ophiocordyceps fungi is rather difficult and was soon covered up with other associated fungi. Besides, it was rather difficult to sporulate the O. sinensis in the laboratory conditions despite using specific medias. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p38-42 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6860
Park-people interface: a case study of Ayodhyapuri VDC, Chitwan, Nepal
Authors: Pant Anita , Bhata Shivraj 
Published: September 2012

The study in Ayodhyapuri Village Development Committee in Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park revealed that the main source of energy is fuel wood, most of which is supplied from Buffer Zone Community Forestry (BZCF) and Chitwan National Park (37.93%) and partially from private land (2.15%). Agriculture was main source of livelihood among the villagers. Fuel wood consumption per household was found to be 3516.11 kg per year in the study area. Landless and low-income households were found using more fuel wood from BZCF and National Park. The root problems in the study area are the maximum extraction of fuel wood and fodder from the CF and National Park, and the crop depredation by wildlife. The depredation of the crop by wildlife is one of the major barriers influencing the conservation attitude of local people. The CF is rich in biodiversity as revealed by presence of 36 species of trees, 54 species of shrubs and 66 species of herbs. Shorea robusta is the most dominating species in both trees and shrub strata whereas Imperata cylindrica is the most frequent herbaceous species. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p47-53 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6862
Effect of mycorrhizal soil and green manures on growth of Ipil Ipil (Leucaena diversifolia L.)
Authors: Bhattarai Nabin , Vaidya Geeta Shrestha , Baral Bikash 
Published: September 2012

A pot trial research work of powder of Lantana camara L., Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng. and mycorrhizal soil on growth of Ipil Ipil (Leucaena diversifolia L.) fodder plant was conducted. Fifty gram of each green manure in powder form and mycorrhizal soil were used in each pot. Including control, altogether four treatments were made and each has fifty replicates. The treatment with green manure from Lantana camara showed maximum growth, survival and germination of the plants with maximum average length of 21.25 cm and 37.96 cm respectively, followed by Eupatorium adenophorum (16.51 cm and 23.46 cm) which was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Survival of plants was higher Lantana camara. Number of mycorrhizal spores, soil bulk density and water holding capacity was higher in Lantana treated soil followed by Eupatorium adenophorum, Mycorrhizal soil and control. The nutrient status of the soil improved than the eroded soil. The soil sample treated with Eupatorium adenophorum showed the maximum percentage of organic matter, potash, phosphorus and nitrogen content i.e. 1.95, 58.14, 13.65, 0.17, respectively followed by Lantana, mycorrhiza and control. The green manures prepared from these plants and mycorrhizal soil can be used for the growth of plants which improves the nutrient status of soil and increases the mycorrhizal biomass stabilizing the eroded and land slided area. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p66-69 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6864
Aroma profile of Eucalyptus globulus: collected from North West Karnataka, India
Authors: Joshi RK 
Published: September 2012

The chemical composition of the essential oil of the leaves of Eucalyptus globulus (Myrtaceae) grown in North West Karnataka, has been analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Forty-eight constituents were identified, accounting 97.93% of the total oil. The major compounds were á-phellandrene (40.31%), á-pinene (13.71%), â-pinene (13.31%), ã-terpinene (9.61%) and 1,8-cineol (4.96%). The oil was rich in monoterpene hydrocarbons (81.14%). Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p89-90 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6870
Solid–liquid equilibria, physicochemical and microstructural studies of binary organic eutectic alloy: urea + 2-aminobenzothiazole system
Authors: Sharma Krishna Prasad , Shakya Pawan Raj , Rai Ramananda 
Published: September 2012

Phase diagram of binary organic system of urea (U) with 2-aminobenzothiazole (ABT) shows the formation of a eutectic at 0.350 mole fraction of urea. Growth kinetics of the eutectic and pure components studied by measuring the rate of movement of solid-liquid interface in a thin glass U-tube at different undercoolings (ÄT) suggests the applicability of HilligTurnbull’s equation: v = u (ÄT) n. The thermodynamic functions such as heat of mixing, entropy of fusion, roughness parameter, interfacial energy and excess thermodynamic functions were calculated from the enthalpy of fusion values, obtained from DSC data. The optical microphotographs of pure and eutectic alloy show their characteristic features. Scientific World, Vol. 10, No. 10, July 2012 p91-94 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sw.v10i10.6871
Posttraumatic skull hemangioma
Authors: Haeren Roel H. L. , Dings Jim , Hoeberigs M. Christianne , Riedl Robert G. , Rijkers Kim 
Published: September 2012

Intraosseous cavernous hemangiomas of the skull are rare lesions for which the origin is unclear. The authors present a case in which there was a radiologically documented history of trauma preceding the development of a hemangioma in the frontal bone.
In a review of the literature the authors found 83 cases of skull hemangiomas, and 43% of the lesions were located in the frontal bone. In 25% of these lesions, previous trauma was reported anamnestically. The present case and radiological findings related to it suggest a causal relationship between trauma and the development of intraosseous hemangioma.
Effect of slosh mitigation on histologic markers of traumatic brain injury
Authors: Turner Ryan C. , Naser Zachary J. , Bailes Julian E. , Smith David W. , Fisher Joseph A. , Rosen Charles L. 
Published: September 2012

Object
Helmets successfully prevent most cranial fractures and skull traumas, but traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussions continue to occur with frightening frequency despite the widespread use of helmets on the athletic field and battlefield. Protection against such injury is needed. The object of this study was to determine if slosh mitigation reduces neural degeneration, gliosis, and neuroinflammation.

Methods
Two groups of 10 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to impact-acceleration TBI. One group of animals was fitted with a collar inducing internal jugular vein (IJV) compression prior to injury, whereas the second group received no such collar prior to injury. All rats were killed 7 days postinjury, and the brains were fixed and embedded in paraffin. Tissue sections were processed and stained for markers of neural degeneration (Fluoro-Jade B), gliosis (glial fibrillary acidic protein), and neuroinflammation (ionized calcium binding adapter molecule 1).

Results
Compared with the controls, animals that had undergone IJV compression had a 48.7%–59.1% reduction in degenerative neurons, a 36.8%–45.7% decrease in reactive astrocytes, and a 44.1%–65.3% reduction in microglial activation.

Conclusions
The authors concluded that IJV compression, a form of slosh mitigation, markedly reduces markers of neurological injury in a common model of TBI. Based on findings in this and other studies, slosh mitigation may have potential for preventing TBI in the clinical population.
Intrathecal baclofen therapy—how we do it
Authors: Ammar Amr , Ughratdar Ismail , Sivakumar Gnanamurthy , Vloeberghs Michael H. 
Published: September 2012

Intrathecal baclofen has become an invaluable tool to treat spasticity of various etiologies. Children who benefit from intrathecal baclofen are often significantly underweight due to underlying disease pathology, and they lack adequate soft-tissue mass to effectively provide cover to the pump. Thus, in this population, subfascial implantation is favored over the subcutaneous technique in view of the high frequency of wound dehiscence and subsequent explantation of the pump associated with the latter method.
The authors describe and review their unit's adapted subfascial implantation technique that has been performed over a period of 10 years in 182 children. This technique provides better tissue coverage for the pump and has resulted in lowering the risk of complications as compared with the subcutaneous technique.