This article examines relationships among top-management-team composition, group processes, and the effects of those processes on cohesion for international joint venture (IJV) teams in Thailand. For culturally diverse teams, demographic elements (member age, length of team tenure, level of education, functional expertise) and cultural characteristics (country of education, nationality, affilia...

A new species of the genus Streptomyces, the proposed name of which is Streptomyces tokashikiensis sp. nov., is described. Soil isolate, strain No. 7124, produces a new antitumor antibiotic FR-900462. The organism is characterized by the presence of spores on the substrate hyphae. Strain No. 7124 is closely related to Streptomyces spiralis in morphological and cultural characteristics, but ther...

While Shigella boydii serotypes have been reported on numerous occasions from many parts of the world (Weil and Saphra, 1953), they rarely have comprised more than a small proportion of the total number of Shigella found, and knowledge of their distribution, cultural characteristics, immunological relationships and pathogenicity is incomplete in some respects. This is particularly true of the m...

The paper describes the concept of Culture Profiles to facilitate globally distributed work groups. The concept describes a representation for cultural characteristics for groups and individuals and relates this concept to existing standards. Hence, it is embedded in the landscape of learning technology standards. A sample implementation for social communities – Culture Clouds – shows the feasi...

The purpose of this research was studying relationship between socio- cultural, economical and managerial factors with the participation rate of agricultural cooperative's members in the Shirvan Chardavol township in the Ilam province, Iran. The method of this study is descriptive-correlative. A researcher made questionnaire was used as the tool for gathering data. The face and content validity...

this is a descriptive field study. the aim of this study was to find personal, familial and socio-economical characteristics of children under five years old, and relationships between these characteristics with acute respiratory infection. the sample was 60 children with acute respiratory infection. data gathered by a questionair include 44 question about personal, familial and socio-economica...

A fungal survey that targeted the tribe Arachnopezizeae (Hyaloscyphaceae, Helotiales) was conducted in Korea. One variety belonging to Proliferodiscus and one species belonging to Rodwayella are recorded for the first time from Korea. Proliferodiscus inspersus var. magniascus differs from P. earoleucus by its amyloid reaction in ascal apices and larger asci. Rodwayella citrinula is distinguishe...

he modernization project launched by the West two centuries ago, was based on three pillars: State-logic, Capital-logic and Ratio-logic; formulated in part by Montesquieu (France), Smith (Britain) and Kant (Germany). The logic of the State implied centralization of coercive power, tempered by democracy. The logic of Capital implied market forces for economic power, tempered by anti-monopoly cla...

BACKGROUND Ethnographic evidence suggests that transactional sex is sometimes motivated by youth's interest in the consumption of modern goods as much as it is in basic survival. There are very few quantitative studies that examine the association between young people's interests in the consumption of modern goods and their sexual behaviour. We examined this association in two regions and four ...