The cruise industry is growing in scale and importance annually. Influences such as multiculturalism, globalisation, the increase in numbers of mega-cruise ships and changing passenger demography, suggest that the work environment is not as it might once have been and yet there is very little research to reveal insights into this complex and seemingly unique world. This paper aims to find out w...

The summer of 2010 was exceptionally warm in eastern Europe and large parts of Russia. We provide evidence that the anomalous 2010 warmth that caused adverse impacts exceeded the amplitude and spatial extent of the previous hottest summer of 2003. "Mega-heatwaves" such as the 2003 and 2010 events likely broke the 500-year-long seasonal temperature records over approximately 50% of Europe. Accor...

Test environments and classification of regional ecological zones into mega environments are the two key components in regional testing of sugarcane cultivars. This study aims to provide the theoretical basis for test environment evaluation and ecological zone division for sugarcane cultivars. In the present study, sugarcane yield data from a three-year nationwide field trial involving 21 culti...

Drawing on Alvesson and Karreman’s (2000) analysis of the methodological problems facing organizational discourse analysis, this commentary examines the four primary essays in this special issue in terms of their ability to deal adequately with micro-discourse, mesodiscourse, grand discourse, and mega-discourse.

Owing to the emergence of more resistant strains of gonococci the position of penicillin is seriously threatened; streptomycin, with a failure rate exceeding 30 per cent. in London (Spitzer and Willcox, 1968) has ceased to be a useful drug in this condition; and the writing is already on the wall for the tetracyclines and some other antibiotics. Even after penicillin had been in widespread use ...

This article, the lead article of a special issue on “The International Adjudication Mega-Politics,” explores causes, strategies and consequences international courts (ICs) becoming embroiled in mega-political legal disputes. In seminal Ran Hirschl described “mega-politics” cases as those where – both national spoke to fundamental questions that defined identity polity. we adapt term for specif...

background: radioactive iodine is widely used for the treatment of various thyroid disorders. safety issues are often a source of worry and anxiety for the patients, their families and comforters. the patients are advised to restrict their social and work related activities. the work presented in this study describes the results of a structured survey conducted on patients visiting our hospital...

This paper undertakes a leverage analysis of mega-events in the context of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. A leverage analysis apparently different from an impact analysis; it focuses on how to maximize the potential positive impacts and minimize the negative impacts for an event that will be held in the future. To analyze the circumstance of the Beijing Olympics that are amendable to leveragin...

Species turnover and its components related to replacement and nestedness form a significant element of diversity that is historically poorly accounted for in conservation planning. To inform biodiversity conservation and contribute to a broader understanding of patterns in species turnover, we undertook a floristic survey of 160 plots along an 870 km transect across oligotrophic sandplains, ex...

WeChat, an instant messaging app, is considered a mega app due to its dominance in terms of usage among Chinese smartphone users. Nevertheless, little is known about its externality in regard to the broader app market. Our work estimates the spillover effects of WeChat on the other top-50 most frequently used apps in China through data on users’ weekly app usage. Given the challenge of determin...