The literature has been mixed regarding how parent-child relationships are affected by the acculturation process and how this process relates to alcohol use among Latino youth. The mixed results may be due to, at least, two factors: First, staggered migration in which one or both parents arrive to the new country and then send for the children may lead to faster acculturation in parents than in...

The design and development processes of complex technical systems are important to the competitiveness of enterprises. These processes are characterised by high creativity and strong non-deterministic dynamics spanning different disciplines, relying on cooperation of different organisations. To successfully support these cooperative activities, methods of experience management are needed. This ...

General systems theory (GST) holds the potential to address some of the issues that information systems (IS) field faces today. This paper addresses the question whether the concepts, principles and approaches prevalent in GST can be gainfully employed for studying and conducting research in IS. Using the concepts embedded in GST, we analyze the problem of “fragmented adhocracy” in IS research....

The Acoustic Emission (AE) due to the sudden release of energy from the micro-fracturing within the rock under loading has been used to estimate pre-load. Once the pre-load is exceeded an irreversible damage occurs at which AE signals significantly increase. This phenomenon known as Kaiser Effect (KE) can be recognised as an inflexion point in the cumulative AE hits versus stress curve. In orde...

In this article, the authors examined the evidence for linkages among 3 variables: schooling, intelligence, and income. They concluded that intelligence and schooling have a bidirectional relationship, with each variable influencing variations in the other. Moreover, changes in both schooling and intelligence influence variations in economic outcomes. Although any single study of the interdepen...

This article focuses on the first Australian report on middle schooling, the Report of the Junior Secondary Review (hereafter JSR), (Eyers, Cormack & Barratt, 1992). This report has been a catalyst for the burgeoning interest in middle schooling in South Australia and is used as a key reference for studies in other Australian states. The final report on which this article is based was completed...

This study investigates the depth of lexical knowledge in first language (L1) speakers and second language (L2) learners in reference to hierarchical word knowledge. Eighty-eight participants took part in a lexical decision task that assessed their speed and accuracy in recognizing words and nonwords. Prime and target pairs in the lexical decision task were related words (hyponynm to hypernym a...

Knowledge management in higher education is a set of organizational processes that support creating and transferring the knowledge in these institutions and allows for achieving organizational and university objectives. Therefore, for the proper management of organizational knowledge, appropriate tools are needed to be able to be aware of the effectiveness of knowledge management in organizatio...

present research is primarily concerned with study of the relationships between the variables knowledge management, organizational learning, and organizational performance in the shabestar branch of islamic azad university. the required data, based on the research model, was gathered through distribution of a questionnaire among the employees of this university. to examine the relationships bet...