As an important discipline of the learning organization, vision provides guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward. It had been proved by the experiences of foreign companies’ successful practice that visionary management was an actually new managerial philosophy and tool after the corporation reengineering theory to support sustained firm growth. It shou...

Commonly used Jones-type discretionary accrual models applied in quarterly settings do not adequately control for nondiscretionary accruals that naturally occur due to firm growth. We show that the relation between quarterly accruals and backward-looking sales growth (measured over a rolling four-quarter window) and forward-looking firm growth (market-to-book ratio) is non-linear. Failure to co...

On a warm Monday mornirg in Pocatello, Idaho, Mark Brown surveys the bustling activity in his cramped metal-fabrication shop. As owner and president of Premier Technology, Inc., Mark uses a few moments between cellular phone calls to reflect on the rapid growth of his small company and to consider a few alternatives regarding the future direction of the business. As the temperature and welding ...

The impact of growth management policy through zoning ordinances on land-use and -cover change is a topic of increasing interest, especially with regard to urban sprawl and forest and agricultural land preservation. As urban and residential land use is quickly replacing extractive land use in southern Indiana, implementation of growth management policy has become a topic of great debate. This a...

Objective. In the United States, growth regulations aimed at environmental protection and better-quality urban areas have become very popular since the 1960s. Although many studies have examined the housing-price effects of local and regional growth management regulations, none has examined the effects of a state law. Past research has also tended to be cross-sectional, rather than longitudinal...

The growth-restricted fetus is a fetus who fails to reach his growth potential and is at risk for perinatal morbidity and mortality. When a fetus has an estimated weight below the 10th percentile, in the absence of congenital anomalies and in the presence of a normal amount of amniotic fluid, Doppler velocimetry gives the most important information to differentiate the truly growth-restricted f...

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

background and purpose: medical education is a laborious program which may give negative consequences on the physical and psychological health of medical students. the aims of this study were to evaluate psychological distress among malay medical students and to assess its relationship with their lifestyle. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 221 malay medical students. psychol...

the response of root to water stress is one of the most important parameters for researchers. study of growth and distribution of root under different irrigation managements helpsresearchersto a better understanding of soil water content, and the availability of water and nutrition in water stress condition. to investigate the effects of four levels of irrigation under two different deficit irr...