Current issues of Publishers' Weekly are reporting serious shortages of paper, binders board, cloth, and other essential book manufacturing materials. Let us assure you these…
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Current issues of Publishers' Weekly are reporting serious shortages of paper, binders board, cloth, and other essential book manufacturing materials. Let us assure you these shortages are very real and quite severe.
Sun-Ki Chai, Dolgorsuren Dorj and Katerina Sherstyuk
Culture is a central concept broadly studied in social anthropology and sociology. It has been gaining increasing attention in economics, appearing in research on labor market…
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Culture is a central concept broadly studied in social anthropology and sociology. It has been gaining increasing attention in economics, appearing in research on labor market discrimination, identity, gender, and social preferences. Most experimental economics research on culture studies cross-national or cross-ethnic differences in economic behavior. In contrast, we explain laboratory behavior using two cultural dimensions adopted from a prominent general cultural framework in contemporary social anthropology: group commitment and grid control. Groupness measures the extent to which individual identity is incorporated into group or collective identity; gridness measures the extent to which social and political prescriptions intrinsically influence individual behavior. Grid-group characteristics are measured for each individual using selected items from the World Values Survey. We hypothesize that these attributes allow us to systematically predict behavior in a way that discriminates among multiple forms of social preferences using a simple, parsimonious deductive model. The theoretical predictions are further tested in the economics laboratory by applying them to the dictator, ultimatum, and trust games. We find that these predictions are confirmed overall for most experimental games, although the strength of empirical support varies across games. We conclude that grid-group cultural theory is a viable predictor of people’s economic behavior, then discuss potential limitations of the current approach and ways to improve it.
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Identifies and describes issues associated with implementing integrated workplacestrategies into commercial office facilities. In particular, recognizes some of the effects of…
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Identifies and describes issues associated with implementing integrated workplace strategies into commercial office facilities. In particular, recognizes some of the effects of such implementations, which are not always fully anticipated or considered by those who are initiators of such changes. Examines the current workplace environment to identify those factors which are promoting the redesign of specific workplaces and the expectations of users of such places. Describes a study of the implementation of an integrated strategy into the workplace of an international energy company, including a post‐occupancy evaluation which exposes the degree of satisfaction expressed by users to a range of performance characteristics of the revised workplace, in particular those which have a direct impact on business performance. Concludes by confirming the critical issues associated with workplace design which arise from the study and highlights those which justify investigation and research.
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P.G. Harris, K.S. Chaggar and M.A. Whitmore
Studies have been made of ageing effects, both at room temperature and at 125°C, on the microstructure of 60:40 tin‐lead solders. A comparison was made of the effect of ageing on…
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Studies have been made of ageing effects, both at room temperature and at 125°C, on the microstructure of 60:40 tin‐lead solders. A comparison was made of the effect of ageing on slow and rapidly cooled matrices. Precipitation of tin within lead dendrites was observed to occur very rapidly after solidification of the alloy. Subsequently the precipitates coarsened markedly over a period of a few weeks. The matrix of the alloy also coarsened at room temperature over this period. At elevated temperatures a similar sequence of events occurred, but substantially faster. The microstructural origins of the known loss in mechanical strength of solders with ageing are discussed.
Cristiano Codagnone, Athina Karatzogianni and Jacob Matthews
Henry C. Hill, Montclair, Walter A. Wolf, Hackcnsack, and Allan Chilton, Ridgewood, N.J., assignors to Wright Aeronautical Corporation, a corporation of New York. Application…
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Henry C. Hill, Montclair, Walter A. Wolf, Hackcnsack, and Allan Chilton, Ridgewood, N.J., assignors to Wright Aeronautical Corporation, a corporation of New York. Application August 28, 1940. Serial No. 354,562. 9 Claims. (CI. 74—55.)
Nora Montalvo-Liendo, Robin Page, Jenifer Chilton and Angeles Nava
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a Nurse-led Long-term Support Group (NLLTSG) as an intervention for Latina women survivors of intimate partner…
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Purpose
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a Nurse-led Long-term Support Group (NLLTSG) as an intervention for Latina women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as to discuss a process for facilitation.
Design/methodology/approach
Yalom’s (2005) group therapy principles guided the creation of the NLLTSGs. According to Yolam, interaction with others and sharing stories reinforces connections within group members and leads to interpersonal learning (Yalom, 2005).
Findings
Latina women survivors of IPV do not have adequate support post IPV relationships. In this case study, the authors describe the process for developing and facilitating a NLLTSG for Latina women survivors.
Research limitations/implications
The case study intervention only included Latina women living in the US Texas–Mexico border. Questions remain regarding the effectiveness of LTNLSGs with women from other cultures and geographic regions.
Practical implications
Nurses, nurse practitioners and other professionals can partner with community service agencies to offer this vital intervention to support and empower Latina women survivors and their families. Implications for future research include theory development and quantitative studies to measure empowerment and healing in Latina women survivors of IPV. The intervention and process should expand to include women of other cultures and geographic region.
Social implications
The case study established a NLLTSG as an effective intervention for initiating and maintaining a NLLTSG with Latina women survivors of IPV as well. NLLTSGs seem to be an essential intervention for recovery in this vulnerable population.
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The content of this paper describes an innovative, culturally sensitive, practitioner-engaged response to intimate partner violence in Latina women survivors.
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Mohd Fadhli Abd Rashid, Noraliani Alias, Kamarudin Ahmad, Radzuan Sa’ari, Frank Tsung-Chen Tsai, Mohd Zamri Ramli and Zulkiflee Ibrahim
The impact of climate change towards water surface resources is crucial, particularly in developing and non-developing countries. Groundwater as a main water resource is thus an…
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The impact of climate change towards water surface resources is crucial, particularly in developing and non-developing countries. Groundwater as a main water resource is thus an essential. However, contamination due to hydrocarbon spills affects the groundwater as a water resource, especially as a main source of drinking water. This chapter investigates the light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) penetrations in double-porosity soil with different moisture contents and with or without vibration impact. It also explains the LNAPL penetration phenomena by employing image analysis. The physical laboratory experiments were implemented using an acrylic cylinder, a mirror, toluene and a Nikon D90 DSLR digital camera. Prepared soil was poured in an acrylic cylinder and compressed with compressor until it became 10 cm in height. LNAPL was then poured instantaneously onto the acrylic cylinder that was filled with soil sample. The LNAPL penetration patterns were recorded and monitored using a Nikon D90 DSLR digital camera. The processing technique was conducted at predetermined time intervals using Surfer software and Matlab routine to plot the LNAPL pattern. The results showed that a higher penetration rate of LNAPL occurred with higher moisture content and without vibration impact. The penetration time for LNAPL to reach the bottom of the soil sample was found to be longer for the soil that had low moisture content and with vibration impact.