Since their origins, the studies on entrepreneurship and small business management have often focused on either the personality traits of entrepreneurs or the neoclassical view of micro-economics, assuming the individual firm as an exclusive unit of analysis. More specifically, following the mainstream of the discipline, most strategic management scholars have long analyzed the entrepreneur’s b...

It is widely recognized that adolescence is a time of unique adaptability as well as vulnerability. Indeed, the teenage years are often considered to be a distinct developmental period precisely because youths are in the midst of an unfinished process of constructing a sense of themselves in the world. This is equally the case for adolescents whose worlds have been turned upside down, as in the...

Study design: A single blinded, randomized control trial, pretest-posttest design, with 6 week treatment programme. Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of Mckenzie exercises to that of a mat based Pilates exercise in improving the pain, functional disability and trunk ROM associated with CNLBP (Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain). Background: Therapeutic approaches developed by Mckenzie and...

This paper introduces a new formal approach to find potential mode confusion situations in shared-control systems such as service and rehabilitation robots. So far, this subject is primarily discussed in the avionics domain. Here, it is motivated why these experiences should be transferred into the service robotics community and how it could be done. The cooperative obstacle avoidance module of...

of chipped stone tools were obtained by direct procurement from bedrock and transported geologic sources, through exchange, and by means of scavenging stone artifacts from archaeological deposits. Recycling and reuse of found stone artifacts has been historically documented (Amick 2007; Ascher 1968; Gould et al. 1971; Hill 1938; Sedig 2010; Tindale 1965) and identified in the archaeological rec...

Our primary long-term goal is to assess whether respiratory sample ("blow") analysis can be developed as a practical method of physiological stress assessment in free-living cetaceans. Few methods exist for assessment of physiological stress levels of free-swimming cetaceans (Amaral 2010, ONR 2010). Respiratory samples (blow) can potentially be collected from targeted individuals and from large...