This paper examines non-linear adaptation to change in the high-technology environment of the computer industry. These environments are defined and the efficacy of different organizational adaptations is assessed with respect to these environments. Results from our analyses show that there is a direct and causal relationship between the employment of nonlinear organizational archetypes and orga...

Cystinuria is an inherited disorder characterized by impaired reabsorption of cystine in the proximal tubule of the nephron and in gastrointestinal epithelium. The only significant clinical problem is recurrent nephrolithiasis secondary to the poor solubility of cystine in urine. It accounts for no less than 1% of all urinary tract stones. Mutations in two genes, SLC3A1 and SLC7A9, have been id...

Technological standardization is an essential prerequisite for the implementation of new technologies: The interdependencies of these technologies require common rules (“standardization”) to ensure compatibility. Though standardization is prevalent in practically every sector of industrialized economies, its macroeconomic implications have not been analyzed so far. Using data on standardization...

talking about paganism (jāhiliyya) is in fact a discourse about a procedure that is not limited to a specific time, since paganism is a social mode (disposition), which can appear in any time and space and has its own characteristics, goals, and standards; a reality that the holy qur’ān, the sunna of the prophet (s.a.w.), as well as the researchers’ inquiries have emphasized. the holy qur’ān ha...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present longitudinal study was to examine the links between chronicity of maltreatment and child behavioral and emotional problems. METHOD Forty-nine maltreated children (32 victims of continuous, or chronic, maltreatment; 17 victims of transitory maltreatment) and their mothers were evaluated in their homes three times over a period of 6 years: at the time of recruit...

Essentially all plants store starch in their leaves during the day and break it down the following night. This transitory starch accumulation acts as an overflow mechanism when the sucrose synthesis capacity is limiting, and transitory starch also acts as a carbon store to provide sugar at night. Transitory starch breakdown can occur by either of two pathways; significant progress has been made...

This paper considers VAR/VECM models for variables exhibiting cointegration and common features in the transitory components. While the presence of cointegration reduces the rank of the long-run multiplier matrix, other types of common features lead to rank reduction in the short-run dynamics. These common transitory components arise when linear combination of the first differenced variables in...

The Peter Principle: An Experiment The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the transitory...

This study investigates the reliability of using short-term averages of earnings as a proxy for permanent earnings in empirical research. An earnings dynamics model is estimated on a large sample of men covering the period from 1983 to 1997 following the cohort-based methodology of Baker and Solon (1999). The analysis uses a unique dataset that matches men in the 1984, 1990 and 1996 Surveys of ...