Karen Wey Smola, Charlotte D. Sutton
Abstract As we enter the new millennium and face the entrance of another generation of workers into the changing world of work, managers are encouraged to deal with the generational differences that appear to exist among workers. This paper revisits the issue of generational differences and the caus...
Ricardo Betancur‐R, Richard E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned fishes, traditionally referred to as percomorphs, whose uncertain relationships have plagued ichthyologist...
Jennifer M. Kachergus, Ignácio F. Mata, Mary Hulihan, Julie P. Taylor et al.
Autosomal dominant parkinsonism has been attributed to pathogenic amino acid substitutions in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2). By sequencing multiplex families consistent with a PARK8 assignment, we identified a novel heterozygous LRRK2 mutation. A referral sample of 248 affected probands from ...
Alexandre Magnan, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Maxine Burkett, Sukaina Bharwani et al.
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance the field by offering an improved conceptual understanding and more practice‐oriented insights. It notably highlights fou...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud
Abstract Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export‐oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready‐made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers, the overwhelming majority of whom are women. This paper...
Mohammed Hossain, M. Masrur Reaz
Abstract This study reports the results of an empirical investigation of the extent of voluntary disclosure by 38 listed banking companies in India. It also reports the results of the association between company specific characteristics and voluntary disclosure of the sample companies. The study rev...
Md Rayhan Shaheb, Ramarao Venkatesh, S. A. Shearer
Abstract Purpose Sustainable crop production could contribute to feed and fuel for the ever-increasing global population. The use of heavy agricultural machinery has improved the efficiency of farming operations and increased global food production since the 1950s. But their negative impact on soil ...
Haiyan Nan, Zhenhua Ni, Jun Wang, Zainab Zafar et al.
The thermal stability in air of graphene synthesized by either chemical vapor deposition or mechanical cleavage is studied. It is found that single layer graphene prepared by both methods starts to show defects at ~500 °C, indicated by the appearance of a disorder‐induced Raman D peak. The defects a...
Zhi Feng, Guoqiang Hu, Guanghui Wen
Summary This paper studies a distributed coordinated control problem for a class of linear multi‐agent systems subject to two types of attacks. The problem boils down to how to achieve secure consensus tracking for multi‐agent systems with connected and disconnected (paralyzed) directed switching to...
Imran Matin, David Hulme, Stuart Rutherford
Abstract This paper reviews the achievements of the ‘microfinance revolution’, through reference to the now extensive literature. It finds that there are many opportunities to improve and innovate. To illustrate this finding, the paper concentrates on examining what we need to know to design and del...
Nada Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin, Andrew Kakabadse
Abstract Within competitive advantage considerations, knowledge has emerged as one of the more strategic, although invisible, assets for organizations. This is notwithstanding a wider and specifically economistic and cognitive discounting of knowledge as a factor of production — largely ignoring the...
Farid Ahammad Sobhani, Azlan Amran, Yuserrie Zainuddin
Abstract Few studies are available on Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure (CSED) in a developing country like Bangladesh. The latest study on the state of CSED was conducted about 10 years ago. During this period, in addition to global diversities, many changes have occurred in the socio‐p...
Akash Tariq, Sehrish Sadia, Kaiwen Pan, Ihteram Ullah et al.
Cancer is a serious health problem and the second leading cause of death around the globe. Present review is an attempt to provide utmost information based on ethno-pharmacological and toxicological aspects of anti-cancer plants of the world. A total of 276 articles published in English journals and...
Faisal Omar, Abu Montakim Tareq, Ali Alqahtani, Kuldeep Dhama et al.
Plant-based indole alkaloids are very rich in pharmacological activities, and the indole nucleus is considered to contribute greatly to these activities. This review's fundamental objective is to summarize the pharmacological potential of indole alkaloids that have been derived from plants and provi...
G. Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa
Abstract Shifting cultivation, which long provided the subsistence requirements of a large number of people in the mountains of South and Southeast Asia under a situation of low population, has been shown to be an environmentally and economically unsuitable practice. Efforts have been made throughou...