Domestic structures, foreign economic policies and global economic order: Imp…

The rise of the large emerging economies of Brazil, India and China can easily be counted among the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy. This article attempts to determine whether these countries have a common institutional model for governing their economies and addresses the implications of these commonalities for global economic institutions. The a…

Reputation Formation and the Evolution of Cooperation in Anonymous Online M…

Theoretical propositions stressing the importance of trust, reciprocity, and reputation for cooperation in social exchange relations are deeply rooted in classical sociological thought. Today’s online markets provide a unique opportunity to test these theories using unobtrusive data. Our study investigates the mechanisms promoting cooperation in an online-auction market where most transaction…

Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins

I am writing these words on a watershed day in molecular biology. This morning, a paper was officially published in the journal Nature reporting an initial sequence and analysis of the human genome. One of the fruits of the Human Genome Project, the paper describes the broad landscape of the nearly 3 billion bases of the euchromatic portion of the human chromosomes. In the most narrow se…

Are we educating engineers for sustainability?

Purpose – The aim of this study is to contribute to the quality improvement and long-term strategic development of education for sustainable development (ESD) in engineering education curricula. Design/methodology/approach – The content in 70 courses in environment and SD were characterized and quantified using course document text analysis. Additionally, two questionnaires were sent to…

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Effects of election results on stock price performance:evidence from 1980 to …

Purpose – The authors aim to analyze whether the results of the 1980 to 2008 US presidential elections influence the stock market performance of eight industries and they seek to examine factors that are expected to affect firms’ stock returns around these elections. Their empirical analysis reflects firms’ exposure to government policies in two ways. Design/methodology/approach – F…

Intangible assets in Germany Analysis of the German stock market index DAX an…

Purpose – Intangible assets are regarded as the future value drivers of company performance. However, hardly anything is known about the actual importance and influence of intangible assets. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap, so the authors analyse the German stock market index DAX and accomplish a survey among the German Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) concerning intangib…

Exploring the involvement of management accounting in strategic decisions and…

Purpose – The paper seeks to explore the extent of involvement of management accounting in strategic inter-organizational decisions and control in the context of offshoring of services. Design/methodology/approach – For the present study, a multiple case study field research design was selected. A data-bank media search identified companies actually offshoring their services. In total, …

An evaluation of small-scale genetic diversity and the mating system in Zoste…

Background and Aims The dwarf eelgrass, Zostera noltii, is a predominant inhabitant of soft-bottom intertidal regions along the coasts of northern Europe. It is a monoecious, protogynous angiosperm in which the potential for self-fertilization and inbreeding are high, especially if clone sizes exceed pollen dispersal distances. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship betw…

Overview of current and future energy storage technologies for electric power…

A B S T R A C T In today’s world, there is a continuous global need for more energy which, at the same time, has to be cleaner than the energy produced from the traditional generation technologies. This need has facilitated the increasing penetration of distributed generation (DG) technologies and primarily of renewable energy sources (RES). The extensive use of such energy sources in tod…

Goodwill accounting and performance measurement

The purpose of this paper is to outline the link between value creation, performance measurement and goodwill accounting according to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US-GAAP). Since economic goodwill is identical to the present value of future residual income, the paper examines how accounting information gat…

Effects of election results on stock price performance: evidence from 1980 to…

The authors aim to analyze whether the results of the 1980 to 2008 US presidential elections influence the stock market performance of eight industries and they seek to examine factors that are expected to affect firms’ stock returns around these elections. Their empirical analysis reflects firms’ exposure to government policies in two ways. Design/methodology/approach – First, to det…

Moving from recycling to waste prevention: a review of barriers and enables

Abstract. Current European waste policy does not mainly aim to treat waste streams but rather place in the foreground of interest the complete supply chain of a product. Waste prevention and re-use do have the highest priority and they take effect before the end-of-life phase of a product or a material is reached. Recycling only takes the third place whereas recovery and disposal represent the…

Core-collapse supernovae: Reflections and directions

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most fascinating phenomena in astrophysics and provide a formidable challenge for theoretical investigation. They mark the spectacular end of the lives of massive stars and, in an explosive eruption, release as much energy as the sun produces during its whole life. A better understanding of the astrophysical role of supernovae as birth sites of neutron…

On the representation dimension of skew group algebras, wreath products and b…

Abstract We establish bounds for the representation dimension of skew group algebras and wreath products. Using this, we obtain bounds for the representation dimension of a block of a Hecke algebra of type A, in terms of the weight of the block. This includes certain blocks of group algebras of symmetric groups.

When More Poor Means Less Poverty:On Income Inequality and Purchasing Power

We show theoretically that the poor can benefit from price changes induced by higher income inequality. As the number of poor increases, the market for products aimed toward the poorgrows, and such products become more profitable. As a result, there are circumstances where an increase in income inequality associates with higher purchasing power of the poor. Using cross-country data on the price…

B chromosomes of rye are highly conserved and accompanied the development of …

Background and Aims: Supernumerary B chromosomes (Bs) represent a specific type of selfish genetic element. As Bs are dispensable for normal growth, it is expected to observe B polymorphisms among populations. To address whether Bs maintained in geographically distinct populations of cultivated and weedy rye are polymorphic, the distribution patterns and the transcriptional activity of differe…

Influence of the support composition on the hydrogenation of acrolein over Ag…

Abstract. The gas phase hydrogenation of acrolein over supported silver catalysts has been investigated with a focus on the influence of the support acidity. Acidity has been varied by preparing silver catalysts supported on silica/alumina supports with varying SiO2/Al2O3 ratio. After the catalytic experiments the Ag catalysts exhibit similar particle sizes, as revealed with TEM (transmissi…

Dehydration of glycerol in gas phase using heteropolyacid catalysts as active…

Abstract. Different silica-, alumina-, and aluminosilicate-supported heteropolyacid catalysts were prepared using phosphomolybdic acid H3PMo12O40·xH2O, phosphotungstic acid H3PW12O40·xH2O, silicotungstic acid H4SiW12O40·xH2O, and ammonium phosphomolybdate (NH4)3PMo12O40·xH2O as precursor compounds. The as-synthesised solids were characterised by nitrogen adsorption, XRD, TG/DTA, Raman s…

Alkyl sulfonate modified LDH: Effect of alkyl chain length on intercalation b…

Abstract. Mg–Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) was modified with straight-chain primary alkyl sulfonates by regeneration. The effect of alkyl chain length on the intercalation behavior of LDH, particle morphology and thermal stability of the modified LDH were investigated in detail. Irrespective of the chain length, all the alkyl sulfonate was very efficiently intercalated. The alkyl sulfo…

Effect of sample preparation and humidity on the photodegradation rate of CEE…

Abstract. Pure titania and titania doped with Zn2+ were prepared by homogeneous hydrolysis in aqueous solution with urea and thioacetamide as precipitating agents. The materials were characterized by XRD, TEM, BET and BJH analysis, which show microporous, nanaocrytsalline anatase phase titania in the size range 4– 5 nm and specific surface area 200–500 m2/g. Adsorption and photocatalyti…

Kinetics of linoleic acid hydrogenation on Pd/C catalyst

Abstract The hydrogenation of linoleic acid was investigated in semi-batch slurry reactors over 5 wt% palladium on carbon (Pd/C) catalyst in temperature and H2 pressure ranges of 40–100 8C and 0.5–20 bar using ndecane as a solvent. The reaction network involves hydrogenation of linoleic acid to monoenoic acid isomers, predominantly oleic acid, and further hydrogenation of monoenoic acid…

Braiding Simulation and Prediction of Mechanical Properties

Abstract Rotary braiding is a cost effective method to manufacture near net shaped preforms that generally have a closed section and may have an arbitrary shape if braiding is performed over a shaped mandrel. The reinforcement architecture can be varied by the number and spacing of active bobbins, and by the speeds used to ‘take-up’ the braid and move the circumferential bobbins. Analytic…

Blue Light Emitting Ir(III) Compounds for OLEDs - New Insights into Ancillary…

The sky-blue emitting phosphorescent compound Ir(4,6-dFppy)2(acac) (FIracac) doped into different matrices is studied under ambient conditions and at cryogenic temperatures on the basis of broadband and highresolution emission spectra. The emitting triplet state is found to be largely of metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) character. It is observed that different polycrystalline and amorpho…

Tailoring Thermotropic Mesophase Morphologies by Molecular Recognition and Fl…

An alkoxyphenyl-substituted melamine derivative has been investigated in binary mixtures with twochain and three-chain semiperfluorinated benzoic acids. Equimolar mixtures of the melamine with the complementary benzoic acids form discrete hydrogen-bonded heterodimers with elongated central core. The dimeric supermolecules involving two-chain partially fluorinated acids organize to infinite b…

Itinerant Ferromagnet RhFe3N: Advanced Synthesis and 57Fe Mossbauer Analysis

A novel two-step route for the synthesis of RhFe3N is presented that yields the target material with a significantly improved phase purity. Except from Fe0.5Rh0.5, the absence of other side products is exemplified on the basis of powder XRD, REM/EDX measurements, and Mo¨ssbauer investigations. As predicted from density-functional theory calculations, both Rietveld refinement and Mo¨ssbauer…

Self-Powered Enzyme-Based Biosensors

Electrical contacting of redox enzymes with electrode supports attracts substantial research efforts directed to the development of biosensors, electrobiocatalyzed chemical transformations,and the development of biofuel cell elements. Tethering of electroactive relays to redox proteins or the immobilization of redox proteins in electroactive polymers6 are common practices to electrically contac…

Male reproductive strategy explains spatiotemporal segregation in brown bears

Summary 1. Spatiotemporal segregation is often explained by the risk for offspring predation or by differences in physiology, predation risk vulnerability or competitive abilities related to size dimorphism. 2. Most large carnivores are size dimorphic and offspring predation is often intraspecific and related to nonparental infanticide (NPI). NPI can be a foraging strategy, a strategy to re…

Plastid Signals and the Bundle Sheath: Mesophyll Development in Reticulate Mu…

he development of a plant leaf is a meticulously orchestrated sequence of events producing a complex organ comprising diverse cell types. The reticulate class of leaf variegation mutants displays contrasting pigmentation between veins and interveinal regions due to specific aberrations in the development of mesophyll cells. Thus, the reticulate mutants offer a potent tool to investigate cell-t…

Heterologous Expression of the Mevalonic Acid Pathway in Cyanobacteria Enhanc…

Heterologous expression of the isoprene synthase gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 conferred upon these microorganisms the property of photosynthetic isoprene (C5H8) hydrocarbons production. Continuous production of isoprene from CO2 and H2O was achieved in the light, occurring via the endogenous methylerythritolphosphate (MEP) pathway, in tandem with the growth of Synechocystis…

Activation of defence responses to Phytophthora infestans in potato by BABA

Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is one of the most devastating diseases of the potato crop. Resistance breeding and current fungicides are unable to control the rapidly evolving P. infestans and new control strategies are urgently needed. This study examined mechanisms of DL-b-aminobutyric acid (BABA)-induced resistance (IR) in the potato–P. infestans system. Leaves from two cult…

A Diallel Crossing Approach Aimed On Selection For Ripening Time And Yield In…

The extension of the ripening season in open field production is of high economic interest for strawberry growers. Therefore, targeted breeding for extreme early or late ripening cultivars with high yield potential is of particular interest. Thirteen strawberry cultivars were crossed in a reciprocal way without selfing, and the 144 resulting F1 populations were evaluated in a field trial o…