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The Center for Coastal Studies: sustainable development education in México
Authors: Ollervides F. , Farrell T. 
Published: April 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present The School for Field Studies‐Center for Coastal Studies (SFS‐CCS) as a success story in sustainable development education. This success is based on a unique academic model, which incorporates sustainable development opportunities and challenges faced by the local community into the program curriculum, and research and technical contributions the Center has made towards sustainable development.Design/methodology/approachThe academic model includes a five year research plan, research projects, case studies and coursework, as well as community service and outreach activities – all of which are geared towards promoting ecosystem health and wise resource utilization of Magdalena Bay, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.FindingsThroughout the program, students work with clients/stakeholders in a professional setting, acting as collaborators, consultants, and participants in field research and problem solving. The community benefits through increased capacity for research and management of natural resources.Practical implicationsAn analysis of the key tenants contributing towards the success of SFS‐CCS in sustainable development, and recommendations for other institutions for adopting similar approaches, are provided.Originality/valueA description of the SFS‐CCS academic model and program curriculum is presented, followed by some highlights of successful sustainable development projects – including green sea turtle education and population monitoring, water quality improvement, and aquaculture development.
The role of interpersonal trust for entrepreneurial exchange in a transition economy
Authors: Manolova Tatiana S. , Gyoshev Bojidar S. , Manev Ivan M. 
Published: April 2007

PurposeWhile trust is widely recognized as central to the establishment of an effective market economy, research on transition economies has not examined sufficiently its role in promulgating economic development. This study seeks to ascertain the links between supplier trust, asset specificity, and uncertainty reduction in the context of a transition economy, and to validate a measure of trust developed in a Western developed market economy in the conditions of a transition economy.Design/methodology/approachA confirmatory factor analysis of trust, asset specificity and uncertainty reduction was performed with a sample of Bulgarian small business owners.FindingsCommensurate with expectations, supplier trust is significantly and positively associated with both asset specificity and uncertainty reduction. The six‐item measure of supplier trust is a valid measure for new and small ventures in the context of a transition economy.Originality/valueThis paper demonstrates that private entrepreneurs in transition economies compensate for the lack of institutional support through embeddedness in their relational exchange network.
An ex‐post comparative analysis of SME formation in Brazil and Mexico
Authors: Miguel Carrillo Rivera Jorge 
Published: April 2007

PurposeThis study seeks to compare and contrast the contexts and processes of the formation and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Brazil and Mexico. Additionally, a research agenda is defined based on information generated by various sources regarding the initial stages of enterprise formation.Design/methodology/approachThis research paper uses data collected from a 2002 study conducted by the Inter‐American Development Bank, along with institutional reports and academic literature, in order to perform a comparative analysis on the gestation and early development of SMEs in Brazil and Mexico.FindingsThis analysis of prior research studies indicates that emerging economies like Brazil and Mexico face enormous social and economic challenges that have in turn slowed down the efficiency and effectiveness of SME support programs. In addition, the differences found in the institutional, socio‐cultural, and economic context of Brazil and Mexico reveal that governments and entrepreneurs face the challenge of sustaining the existence of SMEs.Research limitations/implicationsSince, there was no access to raw data and no statistical procedures could be conducted, the significance of the differences between SMEs in Brazil and Mexico discussed in this paper is perceptual. Future research resulting from this paper shall develop theories that would help to create effective SME support programs, identify how particularities in every country affect SME formation, development, and survival, and explore issues faced in the growth, maturity, and mortality stages of SMEs.Originality/valueSMEs are extremely important to the economies of both Brazil and Mexico. However, an understanding of the micro and macro issues faced by these countries is very limited. This research paper identifies and analyzes such issues in order to specifically make way for future empirical research.
Revisiting motivation preference within the Chinese context: an empirical study
Authors: Song Lianke , Wang Yonggui , Wei Jiangru 
Published: April 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a motivation preferences scale and identify different groups' motivation preferences.Design/methodology/approachSong Lianke designed a motivation preferences scale in 2002. Authors developed this scale by factor analysis in 2006. Participants were a sample of employees from ten organizations in Jiangsu Province, Eastern China. This paper compared motivation preferences among different groups via multivariate analysis of variance.FindingsMotivation preferences can be characterized by existence needs, relatedness needs and growth needs. Results indicated that motivation preferences were strongly related to needs with which individuals desire to be satisfied. There were significant differences in motivation preferences among groups that were categorized by gender or personality. Additionally, we found that Chinese culture influenced motivation preferences.Research limitations/implicationsAuthors collected all data from Jiangsu Province, but future investigation ought to collect data from more places. This paper did not analyze why and how motivation preferences related to needs. Relationship between motivation preference and performance was not discussed. This research did not distinguish motivation preferences between managers and non‐managers. Future research should do those works.Originality/valueThis research provided an instrument for scholars and managers who want to measure motivation preferences. Results suggested that there were differences among different groups on motivation preferences.
Ever the twain shall meet
Authors: Baskin Ken 
Published: April 2007

PurposeTo explore how selected principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory can be synthesized into a model for human and organizational behavior that is more accurate and appropriate to global markets than either traditional eastern or western models.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a model of human and organizational behavior based on similarities between elements of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory.FindingsSeveral of the respective principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory – the Chinese transformational cycle and complexity's cycle of attractors, for instance – are strikingly similar, suggesting that their commonalities are universals of human experience resting underneath their surface differences. By playing those similar principles off against each other, one can develop a model of human and organizational behavior that transcends both east and west, a model highly valuable to business people operating in global markets.Practical implicationsThis model provides a new way for both eastern and western business people to think about their organizations and markets that seems highly accurate to current conditions.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to explore a possible synthesis of strikingly similar principles from Chinese philosophy and complexity theory and how such a synthesis could be applied as a model of human and organizational behavior.
System abuse: towards a greater understanding from the perspectives of children and parents
Authors: McGee Caroline , Westcott Helen L 
Published: April 2007

ABSTRACTThe present article explores the concept of system abuse from the perspectives of children and parents. Four main ways in which the term has been used are highlighted and, with reference to the literature, the commonalities underlying the various uses of the term are explored. Reviewing the available evidence suggests that many families may become unnecessarily involved in the child protection system; this finding is discussed within the parameters of the current Section 17/Section 47 debate. Features of the investigation identified as particularly salient for children and parents include the initial phase of the investigation; investigative interviews and medical examinations; case conferences; social‐worker/family interaction and the lack of follow‐through services. Gaps in service provision when workers do not consider that abuse has occurred are also considered. Finally, pointers for practice during investigations are discussed in the light of this review
Challenging the abuse decision: a comparison of American and British perspectives on complaints and appeals
Authors: Bell Lorna , Tooman Patrick , Young Ian 
Published: April 2007

ABSTRACTThe conclusion by child protection services that a child has been abused and the decision to make a formal record of that conclusion involves a process called‘registration’ in both the United Kingdom and the United States. This is an administrative process rather than a judicial one and is instituted by public officials not lawyers, but it can have as significant an effect on the families involved as the findings of a court Yet, despite this significance, families have found it very difficult to challenge the decision to register a case of abuse, particularly in the UK. This papers offers a critique of registration processes in the UK and in the USA and suggests ways in which these processes might be improved to protect individual rights.
The protection of children in time: child protection and the lives and deaths of children in child abuse cases in socio‐historical perspective
Authors: Ferguson Harry 
Published: April 2007

ABSTRACTFor some 20 years now in the UK, assessments of the effectiveness of child protection have been carried out under the shadow of child abuse inquiries. Yet, relatively little is known about social work and matters of child life and death that preceded the first major inquiry into the death of Maria Colwell in 1973. This paper offers a socio‐historical perspective on child protection and the lives and deaths of children in child abuse cases, and excavates the foundations upon which the major developments of the past two decades have proceeded. The emergence and development of a‘modern’ ideology of child protection, which held that it is possible and desirable for social intervention to work to protect children in time, is traced to processes that unfolded from the late nineteenth century. Statistical evidence on the numbers of children who have died in cases across the twentieth century is examined and analysed in the context of social theories of modernity and perspectives on the changing ways in which child death has (literally) been handled by professionals and knowlege about the problem managed over time.
Services to prevent child placing‐out for cocaine‐affected and non‐affected families
Authors: Berry Marianne 
Published: April 2007

ABSTRACTThis study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the‘In‐Home Family Care’ programme of Children's Home Society of California in Alameda County, particularly regarding the emphasis and impact of services for cocaine‐affected families. The family characteristics, problems addressed and service provision in cases served over a 3‐year period were assessed in terms of their relation to placement outcome for cocaine‐affected and non‐affected families. This evaluation found that, despite serious and often chronic problems among cocaine‐affected families, their child removal rate was no higher than that for non‐affected families. Implications for risk assessment and placement decisions are discussed.
Social work research: the state of the art (or science)
Authors: Trinder Liz 
Published: April 2007

ABSTRACTThis paper provides a critical review of current trends within social work research methodology. The paper identifies three influential contemporary perspectives in social work research: empirical practice, pragmatism and participatory/critical research. It identifies the different approaches taken by each perspective to what should be researched, how it should be researched, and how truth claims should be evaluated. By exploring the linkages between methodology, social work and wider social and political changes, the paper argues that research is an intensely political rather than a neutral activity.
Pilot study of the knowledge and attitude towards evidence based medicine of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees
Authors: Amin M. , Saunders J.A. , Fenton J.E. 
Published: April 2007

Keypoints• The objective of this survey is to provide an insight into the knowledge and attitude of the higher surgical trainees in Otolaryngology towards evidence based medicine and evaluate their understanding of medical statistics and use of evidence based medicine in patient management.• A self administered anonymous questionnaire was distributed to twenty Specialist Registrars in Otolaryngology in Ireland during an annual National Otolaryngology Meeting. Of these, nineteen attempted the questionnaire and eighteen completed it.• Three previously published questionnaires [Meserve et al. (2005) Med. Educ. Online.10, 1; McColl et al. (1998) BMJ.316, 361; Khan et al. (1999) J. Obst. Gynaecol.19, 231] were used in this survey.• In general, there was a moderately welcoming attitude towards evidence based medicine. However, the survey findings indicate the need for incorporation of formal teaching of critical appraisal skills into medical education with a greater emphasis on involvement and dissemination of evidence based medicine in day to day practice.
Comparing two models of voice care delivery
Authors: Gamberini L.J. , Carding P.N. , Drinnan M.D. 
Published: April 2007

Key points• Voice care is an important aspect in the successful treatment of patients with non‐organic dysphonia.• No previous study has examined the specific effect of voice care programmes or the comparative effectiveness of the delivery of these programmes across two healthcare professionals (speech and language therapists and ENT nurses).• We describe a pilot study that provides preliminary data that suggests a short, easily deliverable voice care programme is (i) effective in reducing patients’ perception of their dysphonia and (ii) equally effectively administered by an ENT nurse compared with a speech and language therapist. The study provides a firm base for continued research.
‘Cap carbonates’ and Neoproterozoic glacigenic successions from the Kimberley region, north‐west Australia
Authors: CORKERON MAREE 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe term ‘cap carbonate’ is commonly used to describe carbonate units associated with glacigenic deposits in Neoproterozoic successions. Attempts to use carbonate units as stratigraphic markers have been counfounded by inconsistent identification of ‘cap carbonates’ and a somewhat broad use of the term. Systematic sedimentological and geochemical analysis of carbonate rocks (mostly dolomite) associated with glacigenic deposits from the Neoproterozoic succession of the Kimberley region, north‐western Australia, shows that it is possible to characterize such units by their specific mineralogical, sedimentological, petrographic, geochemical and stratigraphic features. Hence, it is possible to differentiate true ‘cap carbonates’ from other carbonate units that are associated with glacigenic deposits. In the Kimberley successions two broad carbonate types are identified that reflect two stratigraphically distinct depositional realms. Carbonate rocks from the Egan Formation and Boonall Dolomite (the youngest carbonate units in the succession) are characterized by sedimentary components and features that are consistent with deposition on shallow platforms or shelves, analogous to Phanerozoic warm‐water carbonate platform deposits. In contrast, dolomite from the Walsh, Landrigan and Moonlight Valley Tillites preserves a suite of sedimentary and geochemical characteristics that are distinctly different from Phanerozoic‐like carbonate rocks; they are thin (ca 6 m), laterally persistent units of thinly laminated dolomicrite/dolomicrospar recording δ13C fluctuations from −1‰ to −5‰. These latter features are consistent with a ‘Marinoan‐style cap‐carbonate’ rock described from other Neoproterozoic successions. The similarity and broad distribution of these rocks in Australia, when considered within the context of genetic models suggesting a global oceanographic–atmospheric event, support their use as a lithostratigraphic marker horizon for the start of the Ediacaran Period at ca 635 Ma.
The extent of variation in male song, wing and genital characters among allopatric Drosophila montana populations
Authors: ROUTTU J. , MAZZI D. , VAN DER LINDE K. , MIROL P. , BUTLIN R. K. , HOIKKALA A. 
Published: April 2007

Abstract Drosophila montana, a species of the Drosophila virilis group, has distributed around the northern hemisphere. Phylogeographic analyses of two North American and one Eurasian population of this species offer a good background for the studies on the extent of variation in phenotypic traits between populations as well as for tracing the selection pressures likely to play a role in character divergence. In the present paper, we studied variation in the male courtship song, wing and genital characters among flies from Colorado (USA), Vancouver (Canada) and Oulanka (Finland) populations. The phenotypic divergence among populations did not coincide with the extent of their genetic divergence, suggesting that the characters are not evolving neutrally. Divergence in phenotypic traits was especially high between the Colorado and Vancouver populations, which are closer to each other in terms of their mtDNA genotypes than they are to the Oulanka population. The males of the Colorado population showed high divergence especially in song traits and the males of the Vancouver population in wing characters. Among the male song traits, two characters known to be under sexual selection and a trait important in species recognition differed clearly between populations, implying a history of directional and/or diversifying rather than balancing selection. The population divergence in wing characters is likely to have been enhanced by natural selection associated with environmental factors, whereas the male genitalia traits may have been influenced by sexual selection and/or sexual conflict.
THE GENUS SISECA IN AUSTRALIA (ACARINA: TROMBICULIDAE)
Authors: Domrow R. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractFive of the six known species of the Austro‐Malayan trombiculid genus Siseca are parasitic on scincid lizards, while the sixth is confined to pill‐millipedes. The one imperfectly known north Queensland species (S. southcotti Womersley and Audy) is redescribed from Leiolopisma challengeri, while S. vandiemeni sp. n. is described from L. metallicum and L. entrecasteauxi from Tasmania.
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS OF THE LARVAE AND ADULTS OF ALLODAPULA IN THE AUSTRALIAN REGION (HYMENOPTERA: CERATININI)†
Authors: MICHENER C. D. , Syed I.H. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractDescriptions are given of certain of the larval stages of Allodapula unicolor (Smith), A. simillima (Smith), A. perkinsiella Michener & Syed, A. plebeia (Cockerell) and A. nitida (Smith) and of the adults of A. mindanaonis boharti Krombein, A. simillima (Smith) comb. n., A. perkinsiella sp. n., A. unicolor (Smith) comb, n., A. minor sp. n., A. clarissima (Cockerell) comb, n., A. nitida (Smith), comb. n., A. diminuta (Cockerell) comb. n., A. plebeia (Cockerell) comb. n., A. occidentalis sp. n., A. associata Michener, A. praesumptiosa Michener and A. birói (Friese) comb. n. A key to the adults is given.
IXODES (STERNALIXODES) MYRMECOBII SP.N. FROM THE NUMBAT, MYRMECOBIUS FASCIATUS FASCIATUS WATERHOUSE, IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA (IXODIDAE: ACARINA)
Authors: Roberts F. H. S. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe new species Ixodes (Sternalixodes) myrmecobii has been described and compared with related species of Sternalixodes.
DARWINOCORIS, A NEW GENUS OF PACHYGRONTHINAE FROM AUSTRALIA, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE SPECIES D. AUSTRALICUS SP. N. (HEMIPTERA: LYGAEIDAE)
Authors: Slater J. A. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe new genus Darwinocoris and the new species Darwinocoris australicus are described and compared with related Pachygronthinae.
A NEW GENUS OF LETHAEINI COMMON TO AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AFRICA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES (HETEROPTERA: LYGAEIDAE)
Authors: Woodward T. E. , Slater J. A. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe new genus Noteolethaeus, the type species N. armstrongi from Australia and the new species N. leeui from South Africa are described.
THE IDENTITY OF THE COTTON LOOPER KNOWN AS ANTARCHAEA CHIONOSTICTA ATHERTON (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)
Authors: Common I. F. B. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe currently used name of the cotton looper, Antarchaea chionosticta Atherton, is shown to be a synonym of Molopa planalis Swinhoe, and the species is referred to Anomis Hübn. The species is redescribed and its synonymy given; the genitalia of both sexes are figured.
THE GENUS RADFORDIA IN AUSTRALIA (ACARINA: MYOBIIDAE)
Authors: Domrow R. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe genus Radfordia is recorded from native Australian rodents for the first time, two new species being described—R. fanningi sp. n. from Melomys lutillus, north Queensland, and R. hornerae sp. n. from R. assimilis born in captivity in the United States from parents collected in New South Wales. A key to the four species known from Australia is given.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF CADDIS FLIES (TRICHOPTERA) FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA
Authors: KORBOOT K. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractAdults and larvae of Oecetis situlus sp. n. (Leptoceridae), Helicopsyche cochleaetesta sp. n. (Sericostomatidae), Hydrobiosella letti sp. n. (Philopotamidae), and Macronemum torrenticola sp. n. (Hydropsychidae, Macroneminae) are described and figured.
ANATOMY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THAUMASTOCORIDAE (HEMIPTERA: CIMICOIDEA)
Authors: KUMAR R. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe anatomy of Thaumastocoris australicus Kirkaldy is described and supports the relationship of the Thaumastocoridae to the Cimicoid families Cimicidae, Anthocoridae and Nabidae in the order named. The study further confirms Thaumastocoridae as a specialized taxon.
THE GENUS ANISOPS IN AUSTRALIA (HEMIPTERA: NOTONECTIDAE) PART I
Authors: LANSBURY I. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractSeven of the twenty‐three recorded Australian species of Anisops are redescribed and information given on distribution outside Australia. Species dealt with are A. hackeri Brooks, A. paracrinita Brooks, A. elstoni Brooks, A. tahitiensis Lundblad, A. hyperion Kirkaldy, A. deanei Brooks, and A. calcaratus Hale. The new species A. paraexigera is described and the closely related A. exigera Horvath from New Guinea, redescribed.
AN APPARENTLY DIMORPHIC AUSTRALIAN CYDISTOMYIA (DIPTERA: TABANIDAE)
Authors: MACKERRAS I. M. 
Published: April 2007

AbstractThe type series of Cydistomyia bancroftae sp. n., from the Killarney district, south Queensland, appears to be dimorphic, with dark and paler females in the proportion 3:1. Further study is required to elucidate the phenomenon.