We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

K.S. Homan, K.C. Bender, F.C. Chuang, S. Kadel;1 R.J. Sullivan;2 C. Chapman, W.J. Merline;3 J. Moore;4 R. Wagner, T. Denk, G. Neukum;5 J. Head, R. Pappalardo, L. Prockter;6 M. Belton;7 T.V. Johnson;8 C. Pilcher9 and the Galileo SSI Team. Dept. of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 871404; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; SWRI, Boulder, CO; NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA; DLR, Berlin, Germany;...

PURPOSE To synthesize the direct clinical evidence relating waiting times (WTs) for radiotherapy (RT) to the outcomes of RT. METHODS AND MATERIALS We did a systematic review of the literature between 1975 and 2005 to identify clinical studies describing the relationship between WTs and outcomes of RT. Only high quality (HQ) studies that had adequately controlled for confounding factors were i...

Organisms theoretically manage their immune systems optimally across their life spans to maximize fitness. However, we lack information on (1) how the immune system is managed across life-history stages, (2) whether the sexes manage immunity differentially, and (3) whether immunity is repeatable within an individual. We present a within-individual, repeated-measures experiment examining life-hi...

Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus is a commonly isolated Grampositive anaerobic coccus (GPAC) (7). However, the type strain, ATCC 14963, is not representative of the species. Huss et al. (4) described the DNA-DNA homology between the type strain and clinical isolates as being 25%. Because of this finding, new species were described (6), among them Peptoniphilus harei. P. harei has the same biochem...

INTRODUCTION The presence of heavy metals such as cadmium in drinking water resources can be dangerous for human because of toxicity and biological accumulation. The consumption of water which contains Cd in high concentration can lead to Bone and Kidney diseases. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this present study, the researcher collected 432 samples of bottled water in the popular marks in summer a...

Benzene is strongly suspected of being an animal and human carcino gen, but the mechanisms by which benzene induces tumors of lymphoid and hematopoietic organs are unknown. Binding studies in vivo suggest a very low level of covalent binding to the DNA of bone marrow elements. Since several metabolites of benzene have the potential to undergo autooxidation and thereby generate reactive oxygen i...

STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. OBJECTIVE To define preoperative factors predicting clinical outcome after lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA LSS is the most common reason requiring lumbar spine surgery in adults older than 65 years. There are no published systematic reviews on this topic. METHODS A literature search was done until April 30, 2005. Included we...

OBJECTIVES It is important to control the quality level of the observational studies in conducting meta-analyses. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) is a representative tool used for this purpose. We investigated the relationship between high-quality (HQ) defined using NOS and the results of subgroup analysis according to study design. METHODS We selected systematic review studies with meta-ana...