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Rapid evolution in introduced species, ,invasive traits' and recipient communities: challenges for predicting invasive potential

DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, Issue 4 2008
Kenneth D. Whitney
ABSTRACT The damaging effects of invasive organisms have triggered the development of Invasive Species Predictive Schemes (ISPS). These schemes evaluate biological and historical characteristics of species and prioritize those that should be the focus of exclusion, quarantine, and/or control. However, it is not clear how commonly these schemes take microevolutionary considerations into account. We review the recent literature and find that rapid evolutionary changes are common during invasions. These evolutionary changes include rapid adaptation of invaders to new environments, effects of hybridization, and evolution in recipient communities. Strikingly, we document 38 species in which the specific traits commonly associated with invasive potential (e.g. growth rate, dispersal ability, generation time) have themselves undergone evolutionary change following introduction, in some cases over very short (, 10 year) timescales. In contrast, our review of 29 ISPS spanning plant, animal, and microbial taxa shows that the majority (76%) envision invading species and recipient communities as static entities. Those that incorporate evolutionary considerations do so in a limited way. Evolutionary change not only affects the predictive power of these schemes, but also complicates their evaluation. We argue that including the evolutionary potential of species and communities in ISPS is overdue, present several metrics related to evolutionary potential that could be incorporated in ISPS, and provide suggestions for further research on these metrics and their performance. Finally, we argue that the fact of evolutionary change during invasions begs for added caution during risk assessment. [source]

International Dimensions of the Audit Fee Determinants Literature

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING, Issue 1 2002
Phillip E. Cobbin
A review of the literature in the area of audit fee determinants includes fifty-six studies drawn from seventeen countries over the period 1980 to 2000. The review starts with work initially based in the US market and then shows that attention spread almost immediately to a number of other markets, some of which were similar in structure to that of the US including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and Ireland. A second extension of this work has seen studies based on data drawn from markets including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, The Netherlands and Norway. The comparative, analytical review highlights the use of a core audit fee determinants model that is used and adapted in a limited way, to reflect market specific circumstances and to address market specific issues. The review indicates some consistency across markets in respect of generic variables identified as core determinants of the level of audit fees. There is little evidence in the literature to indicate historical, cultural, institutional or other market-specific factors being addressed in a systematic way, particularly in respect of developing countries. [source]

The theologies of transparency in Europe: the limits and possibilities of ,fusion' in the EU transparency regime

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 4 2007
Steven Billet
The consideration of a transparency regime for the European Union has stimulated considerable response from the Brussels lobbying community. Somewhat predictably, the responses have congregated about two poles: one represented by a strident group of reform activists calling for complete openness with a strong legal component, the other taking a minimalist self-regulatory approach to the most fundamental issues. The basic positions of the competing sides seem to be immovable; embraced with all the fervour of religious ,true believers'. At first blush the possibility for a meaningful compromise seems remote. However, the submissions may offer a limited way forward based on a fusion of principles held by many on both sides of the issue. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

An Analysis of Introducing Program Budgeting in Local Government

PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE, Issue 2 2001
Ron Kluvers
Program budgeting has been in use for 30 years. It has had a checkered history, being considered alternately a great advancement or an unworkable system. Little has been written about the consequences for the organization that has adopted it. This study was undertaken concerning local government across the State of Victoria, Australia. A questionnaire was sent to all municipalities. There was a 60 percent response rate. Results show that information generated by planning programming budgeting (PPB) is used for decision making but in a limited way. The proposition that PPB will have an impact on the operations of councils is only partially supported. [source]

South Korea's Missile Defense Policy: Dilemma and Opportunity for a Medium State

ASIAN POLITICS AND POLICY, Issue 3 2009
Tae-Hyung Kim
Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) delivery systems has made missile defense a key security challenge, but missile defense systems are highly controversial. I closely examine the development of the missile defense system in South Korea. South Korea has steadfastly remained outside the theater missile defense (TMD) structure, but it cooperates on missile defense, in a limited way, with its U.S. ally. South Korea's refusal to participate in TMD even as it quietly acquires air defense systems can be explained by political and diplomatic considerations regarding its neighbors (especially China), military and economic considerations about missile defense, and strategic considerations for the United States-South Korea alliance. The TMD situation demonstrates South Korea's dilemma and opportunity as a medium power in a particularly harsh security environment. South Korea is walking a fine line to diversify security relations, to maintain the alliance structure with the United States (albeit in a changed form), and to build a self-reliant military capability. [source]

Detecting acute confusion in older adults: Comparing clinical reasoning of nurses working in acute, long-term, and community health care environments

RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH, Issue 3 2003
Marianne C. McCarthy
Abstract In an article on a previous study involving hospitalized older adults (McCarthy, 2003), it was argued that the theory of situated clinical reasoning explains why nurses often fail to recognize acute confusion. Further, the theory illuminates how nurses' perspectives toward health in aging affect the ways they regard and ultimately deal with older people in this particular clinical situation. The purpose of the current study was to challenge and refine the theory by exploring the influence of different care environments on clinical reasoning related to acute confusion. Following a period of participant observation, a purposive sample of 30 nurses, 10 each from a teaching hospital, a long-term facility, and a home care agency, participated in semistructured interviews. Dimensional analysis provided the methodological framework for data collection and interpretation. The results reinforce prior findings that the ability of nurses to recognize acute confusion and to distinguish it from dementia can be attributed to their personal philosophies about aging. Care environment was identified as a factor that influenced clinical reasoning in limited ways under certain conditions and within certain contexts. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 26: 203,212, 2003 [source]