Research in strategic management has interpreted how companies compete in very diverse ways. Researchers have elaborated different theories or approaches , whose reasoning ranges from explanations oriented towards the interior of the firm to explanations taking the external environment as the point of reference (Hoskisson, Hitt, Wan, & Yiu, 1999). However, the majority of these approaches regar...

Tularaemia is an emerging anthropozoonosis transmitted by contact with infected animals and through arthropod bites, inhalation, or ingestion. We describe a pulmonary nodule suggesting cancer in a 70-year-old man. Histological analysis excluded neoplasia, and bacteriological culture excluded tuberculosis. Serological testing and PCR Francisella were positive for this hunter patient, then treate...

The birth of a new discipline, called ‘physical chemistry’, is sometimes related to the names OSTWALD, ARRHENIUS and VAN’T HOFF and dated back to the year 1887, when OSTWALD founded the Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. But as many historians have pointed out, the phrase ‘physical chemistry’ was widely used before that and the topics under investigation partially go back to Robert BOYLE’s a...

BACKGROUND Meta-analysis is often considered to be a simple way to summarize the existing literature. In this paper we describe how a meta-analysis resembles a conventional study, requiring a written protocol with design elements that parallel those of a record review. METHODS The paper provides a structure for creating a meta-analysis protocol. Some guidelines for measurement of the quality ...

In a time when university presses are struggling to survive and most require financial support from their parent institutions, RMIT Publishing – an electronic publisher from its inception in 1989 – has grown its annual sales from AU$2.8m in 2003 to an expected AU$6m in 2007. This 100% sales growth in five years has been achieved by RMIT Publishing’s unique, context-driven approach to electronic...

The term ’identification’ refers to a situation where a person, or acommunicating device, provides an element that ensures its automaticrecognition. This differs from authentication in which the claimed iden-tity is proved with credentials. We take interest in both the identificationof people and devices; the former goes through biometrics, and we studythe particular case wh...

Greenhalgh and Fahy's paper about the 2014 Research Excellence Framework provides insights into the challenges of assessing research impact. Future research assessment exercises should consider how best to include measurement of indirect and non-linear impact and whether efforts in knowledge transfer and co-production should be explicitly recognised. Greenhalgh and Fahy's findings also demonstr...

Most professional economists believe that economist in general are more selfish than other persons and that this greater selfishness is due to economic education. In this paper we offer empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using a unique data set about giving behaviour to two social funds at the University of Zurich, it is shown that economic training does not make people act mor...

This is what is now happening with the rescue operations of Ireland and Greece. Irish politicians and many commentators have heavily criticized the high interest rates (close to 6%) the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) has imposed on the €67 billion loan it will provide to the country. This interest rate is far greater than the growth rate Ireland can hope for and will thus lead to a sn...