This paper presents an empirical study on the contribution made by middle managers to the development of strategy in an organisation. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with middle-managers and top-managers in companies large enough to have the middle management layer in the organisational hierarchy. The data was analysed using a qualitative approach. Previous studies in th...

Amongst the sources seen in very high gammarays several are associated with Pulsar Wind Nebulae (“TeV plerions”). The study of hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray emission is providing an important insight into the energetic particle population present in these objects. The unpulsed emission from pulsar/pulsar wind nebula systems in the energy range accessible to the INTEGRAL satellite is mainly synchrot...

This three-sample study focused on changes in four key features of women’s personalities (identity, generativity, confident power, and concern about aging) over the course of middle age. Based on women’s retrospective and concurrent feelings about their lives in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, scales were developed and validated for the four themes. We found that identity certainty, generativity, conf...

The paper presents a simple implementation model of the high-voltage power line communication (HV PLC) channel using digital filters. The model utilizes three identical finite impulse response (FIR) filters. The amplitude characteristic of the FIR filters matches the HV PLC channel amplitude characteristic for a given coupling, without taking into consideration reflection. The reflection phenom...

Past findings indicate that middle-aged adults in the United States tend to be more resistant to attitude change than younger and older adults, but little is known about why this is so. The authors propose that midlife adults' disproportionate occupation of high-power social roles (which call for resoluteness) may partly explain their heightened resistance to persuasion. Using nationally repres...

india, the second most populous country in the world enjoying 6% economic growth during the last years of the twentieth century, is considered as a newly emerged power, and is predicted to be the fourth economic power by 2025. development of military might, outstanding software power particularly in space industry and entering nuclear technology arena provide a special position for india in the...

Transient event-related potentials (ERPs) and steady-state responses (SSRs) have been popularly employed to investigate the function of the human brain, but their relationship still remains a matter of debate. Some researchers believed that SSRs could be explained by the linear summation of successive transient ERPs (superposition hypothesis), while others believed that SSRs were the result of ...

During the past four years I have been involved in varying degrees in the death of about 70 people, most of them children and teenagers. Almost anything worth while that I have learnt about death, I have learnt from those young people and from those-closest to them. Perhaps the most important thing has been the gradual recognition that however ill at ease and maladroit Western society is in the...