Shareholder valuations are economically and statistically positively correlated with independent director power, gauged by a composite of social network power centrality measures. Powerful directors’ sudden deaths reduce shareholder value significantly; other do not, consistent powerful directors increasing firm valuations. Further tests associate more less value-destroying mergers acquisitions...

In Indonesia, cattle feces (CF) and water hyacinth (WH) plants are abundant but have not been widely revealed. The use of microorganisms as decomposers in the fermentation process has applied, so researchers interested studying further. This study was to evaluate effect combination CF with WH on composting by applying white-rot fungal (WRF) (Ganoderma sp) microorganism a decomposer. A number si...

Eliasson, P.E. 2007. Impacts of climate change on carbon and nitrogen cycles in boreal forest ecosystems. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN: 1652-6880, ISBN: 978-91-576-7388-6 It is well known that soil carbon stocks decrease considerably in response to soil warming, but experimental data have shown that the loss of carbon declines within decades in apparent acclimation. An explanation to such findin...

The discovery of extensive and complex hypolithic communities in both cold and hot deserts has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance in terms of regional productivity. However, most hypolithic research has focused on the bacterial elements of the community. This study represents the first investigation of micro-eukaryotic communities in all three hypolith typ...

BACKGROUND In Africa, there are several problems with the specific identification of bacteria. Recently, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry has become a powerful tool for the routine microbial identification in many clinical laboratories. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study was conducted using feces from 347 individuals (162 with diarrhea and 185 without diarrhea) sampled in health centers in ...

MOL is a local microorganism or natural decomposer that used as starter culture in production of organic fertilizers which known bokashi. The advantage using it can be made from cheap materials by utilizing agricultural waste so increase the added value well reduce environmental pollution. use biodecomposer bokashi accelerate fermentation process. This study aimed to produce where characteristi...

The effects of radioactive contamination on ecosystem processes such as litter decomposition remain largely unknown. Because radionuclides accumulated in soil and plant biomass can be harmful for organisms, the functioning of ecosystems may be altered by radioactive contamination. Here, we tested the hypothesis that decomposition is impaired by increasing levels of radioactivity in the environm...