Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Robins School of Business, University of Richmond toward this research, as well as the constructive comments generously offered by Associate Editor Justin Jansen and three anonymous reviewers. Abstract We propose a conceptual model that links entrepreneurs' passion, network centrality, and financial performance, an...

The aim of this article is to explore the linkage of two microsimulators developed at the University College London. At present, these models deal independently with buses at either bus stops or traffic networks. First, both microsimulators are described in some detail. The generic way in which both models can be connected is then proposed. As a result of this analysis, the main issues for a co...

Healthy dissidence is part of the stuff of politics but when does health break down into ill health and how does that ill health manifest itself? In violence, street riots, anarchism, terrorism, revolution, civil war, or in forms of deviant thought and behavior that may be regarded as manifestations of mental illness? The term dissenter came into being in 1639 to describe individuals who separa...

To know Dickson Despommier is to know his love of parasites. Despommier’s academic text on parasitic diseases (co-edited by Robert Gwadz, Peter Hotez, and Charles Knirsch) is now in its 5th edition. In 2010, the long-time professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health tackled something new in “The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century.” Now he’s returned to hi...

background : with regard to an increase in the life expectancy for women and the consistency of the menopause age, a significant portion of women's age is passed after the menopause. menopause is considered as a critical and sensitive period due to the changes and the disorders that are involved in it. vasomotor symptoms, sleep disorders and psycho-mental changes are among the most prevalent sy...