Correction: Karyotype evolution in Phalaris (Poaceae): The role of reductional dysploidy, polyploidy and chromosome alteration in a wide-spread and diverse genus

In this paper, we explore the role of district leaders in implementing school reform, specifically year-round schooling. We examine the experiences of four Florida districts with particular emphasis on their social, political, and fiscal contexts. Successful innovation is promoted as leaders act in a humane and open fashion that specifically in cludes eschewing promises that cannot be fulfilled. We have found that creating wide spread support for the innovation, being flexible, and creating a climate for change and innovation are crucial. Ensuring equitable implementation of the reform and attending fairly to details of both contracts and programs are especially important.

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Trust and Social Capital

Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-663-1.ch005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 75-91

Author(s):

Ben Kei Daniel

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Economic Development ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Key Issues ◽

Trusting Relationships ◽

Definition Of ◽

Computational Systems

Regardless of any approach taken for examining social capital, researchers continuously converge on some key issues such as trust and yet diverge on several others about concrete and consistent indicators for measuring social capital. Many researchers believe that presence or absences of social capital can be solely linked to trusting relationships people build with each other as well as social institutions of civil engagement. It is not clearly known however, whether trust itself is a precondition for generating social capital or whether there are other intermediary variables that can influence the role of trust in creating social capital. In addition, similar to social capital, the definition of trust is problematic and it remains a nebulous concept and equally, with many dimensions. Interests in the analysis of trust are wide spread among many disciplines, notably policy analysis, economic development, reliability and security of distributed computational systems and many others. The variety of approaches currently employed to investigate trust and different interpretations of its role in fostering social capital has resulted into a diverse array of knowledge about the concept and its relationship to social capital. This Chapter provides a broader overview of work on trust. It discusses how researchers have used trust as a proxy for measuring social capital.

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The Smart Card in Mobile Communications

Mobile Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch083 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1004-1028

Author(s):

Claus Dietze

Keyword(s):

Smart Card ◽

Mobile Communications ◽

Smart Cards ◽

Mobile Banking ◽

Wide Spread ◽

User Identification ◽

Security Services ◽

Communications Systems ◽

Mobile Communications Systems

This chapter gives an introduction into the smart card technology and its history by outlining the role of the smart card in mobile communications systems. The role of the smart card as a key enabler for services requiring or utilizing unambiguous user-identification is outlined. These services include multimedia and high-security services such as mobile commerce or mobile banking. Smart cards containing the described mechanisms provide the user with privacy and the capabilities to use information, personalized according to his needs, in a wide-spread system with a virtually unlimited number of services. Furthermore, the capabilities of the smart card to enhance services, to secure the issuers’ revenues and to increase the usage of the services by providing a trustful platform for the user are described. Future evolutions and further developments of the smart card are illustrated, including how they pave towards new types of applications and services.

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The role of manpower planning in the corporate planning process

South African Journal of Business Management ◽

10.4102/sajbm.v19i2.970 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 45-56

Author(s):

Jay Owens ◽

Lila Nema

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

South African ◽

Planning Process ◽

Manpower Planning ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Corporate Planning

The purpose of this article is to evaluate how wide-spread the use of, as well as how comprehensive manpower planning is in South African organizations. It also explores how well integrated manpower planning is in the strategic planning of organizations. A review of the planning and corporate planning literature is undertaken. A sample of 25 companies from the Financial Mail 'Top 100 Companies' was selected for analysis. Conclusions are drawn from the findings, and a list of recommendations has been drawn up which will enable companies to improve their manpower planning in a changing South Africa.Die doelwit van hierdie artikel is om ondersoek in te stel na die omvattendheid asook die deeglikheid van mannekragbeplanning in Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappye. Dit is verder 'n ondersoek na hoe geintegreerd hierdie mannekragbeplanning in die strategiese beplanning van hierdie maatskappye is en bied 'n literere oorsig van die veld aan. Vyf-en-twintig maatskappye uit die Financial Mail 'Top 100 Companies' is ontleed. Met die gevolgtrekkings wat uit die ondersoek voortgespruit het, is 'n lys van aanbevelings opgestel van wat 'n maatskappy kan doen om mannekragbeplanning op te knap in 'n veranderende Suid-Afrika.

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Employee Engagement and Perceived Financial Performance: A Serene Insight

International Business Research ◽

10.5539/ibr.v10n12p88 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 88

Author(s):

Y. Anuradha Iddagoda ◽

Kennedy D. Gunawardana

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Job Performance ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Hr Managers ◽

The Relationship ◽

Vast Range

Employee engagement encompasses and connects a vast range of management discipline which turns it to be a wide spread concept. The correlation between employee engagement and perceived financial performance has rarely been studied. The intention of this study scrutinizes the connection between employee engagement and perceived financial performance. Based on data extracted from 67 HR managers in the listed companies in Sri Lanka, the study investigates two hypothesized relationships; the relationship between employee engagement and perceived financial performance, and the mediating role of employee job performance on the relationship between employee engagement and perceived financial performance. These ideas initiate important discussion for academics and practitioners.

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The role of hybridization in the karyotype evolution of deer (Cervidae; Artiodactyla; Mammalia)

Theoretical and Applied Genetics ◽

10.1007/bf00588595 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 82 (4) ◽

pp. 425-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

S. Herzog ◽

R. Harrington

Keyword(s):

Karyotype Evolution

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Resurrecting Old Arguments: Responding to Four Essays

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus ◽

10.1177/1476869005060237 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 209-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

N. Wright

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Early Church ◽

Post Mortem ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Two Stage ◽

Son Of God ◽

Second Stage ◽

Bodily Resurrection ◽

The World

AbstractThe author is grateful for the attention given to his book The Resurrection of the Son of God by the four reviewers. David Bryan is right to highlight the Enoch literature as a more fertile source of resurrection ideas than the book allowed for; but he has overstated his objection. Granted that the stream of thought represented by resurrection is more diverse even than RSG allowed, the book's argument did not hinge on the wide spread of resurrection belief at the time but on the meaning of 'resurrection', i.e. a two-stage post-mortem existence, the second stage being a new embodiment. Bryan's suggested elevation of Enoch, Elijah and others as precursors of the exaltation of Jesus fails in that these figures neither die nor are resurrected. James Crossley's counter-proposal—resurrection stories grew from 'visions' which gave rise to the idea of an empty tomb as an attempt to 'vindicate' the 'ideas and beliefs of Jesus'—fails on several counts, not least because it ignores Jesus' kingdom-proclamation which was not the promulgation of ideas and beliefs but the announcement that Israel's God was going to do something that would claim his sovereignty over the world. Michael Goulder revives the highly contentious hypothesis that the early Church was polarized between the Jerusalem apostles, who believed in a non-bodily resurrection, and Pauline Christians for whom the resurrection was bodily. The claim that Mark 16.1-8 is full of contradictions and impossibilities is rejected. Larry Hurtado warns against downplaying the role of experience both in the Christian life and in describing the devotion and liturgy of the early Church. While cautioning against the use of the word 'metaphor' to mean 'less than fully real', I acknowledge the force of the argument, and suggest the cognitive processes I propose and the devotional life sketched by Hurtado are complementary.

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The Free Improvisation Game: Performing John Zorn’s Cobra

Journal of Research in Music Performance ◽

10.21061/jrmp.v0i0.727 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Dylan Van der Schyff

Keyword(s):

Music Education ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Music Psychology ◽

Free Improvisation ◽

Person Perspective ◽

The World ◽

And Performance ◽

Musical Communication

The use of improvisation is wide spread in musical practice around the world. Nevertheless, Western academic circles tend to ignore this ubiquitous activity and have maintained a focus on composition and interpretation. This is beginning to change, however, and the role of improvisation in performance and music education is receiving an increasing amount of attention. This paper contributes to this project by examining the practice of ‘free improvisation’ in a large ensemble context. A rehearsal and performance of John Zorn’s Cobra––a ‘game’ piece for improvisers––is analyzed from a first-person perspective; relevant research in music psychology is considered; and suggestions are made with regard to how we may better understand the nature of musical communication in improvised contexts. Pedagogical applications are also considered.

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Increased awareness enhances physician recognition of the role of smoking in chronic pancreatitis

Herald of Pancreatic Club ◽

10.33149/vkp.2020.03.04 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 23-31

Author(s):

T. Muniraj ◽

D. Yadav ◽

J. N. Abberbock ◽

S. Alkaade ◽

S. T. Amann ◽

...

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Risk Factor ◽

Chronic Pancreatitis ◽

Smoking Status ◽

Original Study ◽

Wide Spread ◽

The North ◽

Empiric Data ◽

Multivariable Analyses

Background: We have previously reported that physicians under-recognize smoking as a chronic pancreatitis (CP) risk factor. We hypothesized that availability of empiric data will influence physician recognition of this relationship. Methods: We analyzed data from 508 CP patients prospectively enrolled in the North American Pancreatitis Study-2 Continuation and Validation (NAPS2-CV) or NAPS2-Ancillary (AS) studies (2008–2014) from 26 US centers who self-reported ever-smoking. Information on smoking status, physician-defined etiology and identification of smoking as a CP risk factor was obtained from structured patient and physician questionnaires. We compared how often physician identified smoking as a CP risk factor in NAPS2-CV/NAPS2-AS studies with NAPS2-original study (2000–2006). Results: Enrolling physician identified smoking as a risk factor in significantly (all p< 0.001) greater proportion of patients in NAPS2-CV/AS studies when compared with NAPS2-original study among ever (80.7 vs. 45.3%), current (91.3 vs. 53%), past (60.3 vs. 30.2%) smokers, in those who smoked ≤1 pack/day (79.3 vs. 39.5%) or ≥1 packs/day (83 vs. 49.8%). In multivariable analyses, the enrolling physician was 3.32–8.49 times more likely to cite smoking as a CP risk factor in the NAPS2-CV/NAPS2-AS studies based on smoking status and amount after controlling for age, sex, race and alcohol etiology. The effect was independent of enrolling site in a sub-analysis limited to sites participating in both phases of enrollment. Conclusions: Availability of empiric data likely enhanced physician recognition of the association between smoking and CP. Wide-spread dissemination of this information could potentially curtail smoking rates in subjects with and those at risk of CP.

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