Colonization success increases with the size of the founding group. Both demographic and genetic factors underlie this relationship, yet because genetic diversity normally increases with numbers of individuals, their relative importance remains unclear. Furthermore, their influence may depend on the environment and may change as colonization progresses from establishment through population grow...

Strategic intent represents an organization’s vision and its aspired direction of growth. Organizations that lack a serious strategic intent suffer from “scarcity of ambition” that inhibits them from compiling the resource stocks that may lead to future success. Despite being almost three decades old, there has been a dearth of empirical papers testing strategic intent theory and, therefore, th...

. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...

In the early 1960s, Professor William (Bill) F.H. Jarrett was presented with a time-space cluster of cats with lymphoma identified by a local veterinary practitioner, Harry Pfaff, and carried out experiments to find if the condition might be caused by a virus, similar to lymphomas noted previously in poultry and mice. In 1964, the transmission of lymphoma in cats and the presence of virus-like ...

This study aims to investigate the formal and informal attributes of founding entrepreneurs contributing to venture growth. The study found significant relationship between venture growth and entrepreneurs with high personal initiative, focused on specific competency areas within operations, finance, marketing and human resources. In operations, founding entrepreneurs are found to be concerned ...

Since the inception of Journal Cancer Survivorship (JCSU), founding editor-in-chief, associate editors, editorial board members, and peer reviewers have played important roles in influencing knowledge base published JCSU. The journal editors represent key disciplines, practice areas, research expertise cancer survivorship, which includes oncology hematology, pediatric oncology, health psycholog...

Described is the evolution of the schistosomiasis control programme in Burundi since 1985. A single round of selective population chemotherapy was carried out in the Rusizi Plain and the Bugesera focus from 1985 to 1990. The prevalences and intensities of infection as well as the number of symptomatic cases detected in general health services decreased considerably. Annual sample surveys in the...

Currently, automatic monitoring systems are increasingly used in the civil engineering structures especially in bridges with a high socioeconomic impact. In the last decades, the technology evolution that the world has being subjected allow, nowadays, the implementation of monitoring systems capable of observe the structural behavior in a programmable, remote and real-time manner. The databases...

Language is the finest gift of god, for communication. Optical character recognition (OCR) is one of the active fields for research and development. Several researchers have presented different approaches to recognize various language characters all over the world. Recognizing printed and hand written characters are two different areas of character recognition. Louis Braille invented Braille la...