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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	40%

Selected Abstracts

Power and Wisdom: Toward a History of Social Behavior

JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 4 2003
Akop P. Nazaretyan
Cross-disciplinary studies carried out lately by Russian scholars discovered a causal relationship between the three variables: technological potential, cultural regulation quality, and social sustainability. The patterns called techno-humanitarian balance law, states that the higher production and war technologies' power, the more refined the behaviorregulation means (consolidated values and norms, etc.) that are required for self-preservation of the society. The article shows that the law has controlled social selection for all of human history and prehistory, discarding unbalanced social organisms, as far as they could not cope with ecological and (or) geopolitical crises, which had been caused by their own activities. It also shows how successive growth of instrumental opportunities in long-term retrospection has dramatically led to the consecutive perfection of cultural and psychological regulation mechanisms. Relevant calculations, comparative-anthropological evidence, and historical illustrations are provided. Regularities in mental processes are described that precede and accompany crisis-causing behavior, to certain extent regardless of population's historical and cultural peculiarities. [source]

The backyard human performance technologist: Applying the development research methodology to develop and validate a new instructional design framework

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2009
Timothy R. Brock PhD
Development research methodology (DRM) has been recommended as a viable research approach to expand the practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice literature that human performance technology (HPT) practitioners can integrate into the day-to-day work flow they already use to develop instructional products. However, little has been written about how it can be applied in a workplace setting to allow HPT practitioners to consider this research approach for adoption into their own activities. This article provides a real-world application of the DRM to help close this literature gap. After providing background information to establish the case context, the article presents an overview of how this research approach was applied to an effort to develop and validate a new instructional design framework for potentially training National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts for deep space exploration missions. The result of this case indicates that this research methodology provides a viable approach that HPT practitioners can integrate into their current practices to provide a practice-based research baseline to contribute to the practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice literature. [source]

Takeover activity in Australia: endogenous and exogenous influences

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 3 2005
Frank Finn
G34 Abstract The present paper analyses the population of takeover bids for listed Australian companies using quarterly data over a 25-year period to re-examine the predictability of takeover activity and to determine if there is a flow on impact on macroeconomic variables. We examine whether takeover activity: (i) is endogenous; that is, determined by own activity; (ii) is jointly determined by macroeconomic and capital market variables; and (iii) has an exogenous spillover impact across the economy. We find that stock prices and takeover activity share a long-term common trend, the relative success of takeover bids is independent of sharemarket activity, and conclude that aggregate takeover activity is driven by fundamental economic factors rather than by speculative activity. [source]

Tumorigenic effect of transcription factor hAP-2, and the intricate link between hAP-2, activation and squelching

MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS, Issue 4 2002
Yihong Yu
Abstract Overexpression of human activator protein-2, (hAP-2,) is carcinogenic. Its aberrant regulation is the underlying tumorigenic event in the human teratocarcinoma cell line PA-1. In this cell line excess hAP-2, protein binds and sequesters coactivators, which interferes with the activity of other activators and with its own activity. The N-terminus of hAP-2,, which contains an activation domain, is critical in squelching and tumorigenicity. Mutation analyses of the N-terminus region showed that activation and squelching were intricately linked; nevertheless, squelching could occur in the absence of activity. Cells overexpressing squelching-proficient mutants grew efficiently on soft agar irrespective of their ability to activate transcription, which indicates that these cells are tumorigenic. Mutants that lacked both properties were nontumorigenic. These results suggest that squelching, but not activation, causes transformation and that the factors that are sequestered at this region are critical in tumorigenesis. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

John Donne, godly inscription, and permanency of self in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2010
Matthew Horn
I argue that throughout his career but especially during his sickness of 1623, Donne fears self annihilation in death. Examining critical views on Donne's concept of death and the self, I identify this as a fear of a temporal blackout of the self between the body's death and the final Resurrection. Donne believes that the self is the result of the combination of the body and the soul, and although the soul can survive the body's dissolution, the self cannot. In order to counter this fear of the self's temporal disappearance, Donne seeks to inscribe himself in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, assuming the posture of an anatomist to distance himself from his physical body to capture the observations of his body in a text using a corporeal register. Donne preserves this textual encoding of himself by addressing God as the main audience for the Devotions: when God reads the text, the content of the text (Donne's self) becomes archived in the eternally stable mind of God. Ultimately, Donne's authorship of the Devotions is his imitation of God's own activity. Donne sees God's nature, his ,core self', as a system of eternally preserved propositions, and God's activity in creation is an act of copious literary expression using an alphabet of physical things that are used not for their own endurance qua physical entities but for their ability to figurative reveal God's self, which stands beyond and above them. Donne imitates this nature and activity in his act of writing the Devotions. [source]