With the business environment become more complex and dynamic, organizations have been faced with more pressures of competition. Organizations are often compelled to form strategic alliances with other organizations to survive and prosper. The inter-organizational arrangement can become favorable seedbed for inter-organization conflict. The participants in the strategic alliance often spend a s...

This paper generalizes the model proposed by Misra, by considering switching between political parties. In the model proposed, the movements of members from political party B to political party C and vice versa, are considered but the net movement is considered by assuming that [Formula: see text] (a constant), which implies that the movement of members is either from party B to party C or from...

During Yemenite Jews’ stay in Israeli transit camps during 1948–1950, many of their children disappeared the so-called “Yemenite Children Affair,” undermining immigrants’ faith redemptive ethos Zionism. To better understand this collective trauma, we return to original Freudian conceptualization melancholia as “failed mourning,” locating it within ethnographic context Affair and integrating its...

The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication--a South African multi-media health promotion project--together with the National Network on Violence Against Women, formulated an intervention to address domestic violence. Recognising that behavioural change interventions aimed solely at individuals have limited impact, the intervention was designed to impact at multiple mutuall...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...

the role of institutions in science and society. On a practical level, she seems unaware of such interesting historical issues as the difficult birth of Kew Gardens and its struggle for pre-eminence with the Botany Department of the British Museum. Kew prospered because of its decision to concentrate on economic botany, an area in which the British Museum was unable to operate. The question of ...

Metabolic remodeling is a major determinant for many cell fate decisions, and a switch from respiration to aerobic glycolysis is generally considered as a hallmark of cancer cell transformation. Pyruvate is a key metabolite at the major junction of carbohydrate metabolism between cytosolic glycolysis and the mitochondrial Krebs cycle. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Bender et al show that ye...

The multistep process of metastasis is a major hallmark of cancer progression involving the cointeraction and coevolution of the tumor and its microenvironment. In the tumor microenvironment, tumor cells and the surrounding stromal cells aberrantly secrete matricellular proteins, which are a family of nonstructural proteins in the extracellular matrix (ECM) that exert regulatory roles via a var...

First discovered in Drosophila, the Hippo pathway regulates the size and shape of organ development. Its discovery and study have helped to address longstanding questions in developmental biology. Central to this pathway is a kinase cascade leading from the tumor suppressor Hippo (Mst1 and Mst2 in mammals) to the Yki protein (YAP and TAZ in mammals), a transcriptional coactivator of target gene...

In this article the impact of computers and the Internet on mathematics is discussed. It is argued that this influence will be considerable and will lead to the commercialization of the tools for producing and teaching mathematics. Some simple examples are presented to illustrate the possible dangers that such commercial influence might have while also illustrating possible benefits. Some specu...