This paper extends development of the Organization Exchange Model (OEM), an enterprise model that posits resource exchanges are the defining property of organizations. Several network analysis techniques are suggested to support analysis of organizations modeled as networks of exchanges. A case study of a non-profit retail organization demonstrates the model’s use for organizational analysis. A...

Medicinal plants provide indigenous and peasant communities worldwide with means to meet their healthcare needs. Homegardens often act as medicine cabinets, providing easily accessible medicinal plants for household needs. Social structure and social exchanges have been proposed as factors influencing the species diversity that people maintain in their homegardens. Here, we assess the associati...

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An important episode in workplace learning is the socialization of newly hired people into the organization quickly and effectively. Typically, the organization sciences literature conceptualizes the socialization of new employees as a learning process whereby the newcomer is responsible for learning to fit into the organization. Not only must newcomers learn the tasks of their jobs, they must ...

Missions i/ To promote international exchange of information, knowledge and expertise through the organization of scientific conferences, ii/ to act as a regional resource for training and research, iii / to support programs that will strengthen the response and the control to critical health threats, and iv / to improve regional capacity to prevention, surveillance diagnosis and management of ...

Organisms, including Vibrio cholerae, can be transferred between harbors in the ballast water of ships. Zones in the Caribbean region where distance from shore and water depth meet International Maritime Organization guidelines for ballast water exchange are extremely limited. Use of ballast water treatment systems could mitigate the risk for organism transfer.

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Teaching reform of Spinning course is discussed based on spinning course characteristics and practice in this paper, reasonable setting of teaching contents, modern methods application, flexibility of classroom teaching, improvement of methods, the organization of exchange and discussion between students , setting of teaching equipments, sound arrangement of exercitation and sophisticated train...

Public key based authentication and key exchange protocols are not usually designed with privacy in mind and thus involve cleartext exchanges of identities and certificates before actual authentication. In contrast, an AffiliationHiding Authentication Protocol, also called a Secret Handshake, allows two parties with certificates issued by the same organization to authenticate each other in a pr...

The actin monomer-binding protein, profilin, influences the dynamics of actin filaments in vitro by suppressing nucleation, enhancing nucleotide exchange on actin, and promoting barbed-end assembly. Profilin may also link signaling pathways to actin cytoskeleton organization by binding to the phosphoinositide PIP(2) and to polyproline stretches on several proteins. Although activities of profil...