Sunspots in NOAA active region 7978 rst appeared on July 6, 1996, while the region was at E15. The spots reached an area of 400 millionths within four days and the active complex remained interesting for at least ve solar rotations, generating an X class are, a long-duration event, and coronal mass ejections well-observed by both Yohkoh and SOHO. During these ve rotations, only a few short-live...

This is a descriptive, quantitative, and hypotheses testing study conducted on entrepreneurial and professional CEOs. This study has a particular interest in small medium enterprises (SMEs) because it constitutes the core of our economy and is a major factor of social composition. The purpose of present study is to investigate and explore differences on the motivational profile of Pakistani ent...

Working with ‘real-world’ problems is at the centre of the RAMESES research project which focuses on Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In designing the study care had to be taken to ensure the relevance of the research techniques to be used.. This paper outlines the benefits of using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods within the bounds of a multi-disciplinary research...

Software Maintenance (SM) constitutes a critical function that enables organizations to continually leverage their IT capabilities. However a majority of the SM methodologies are geared toward large organizations. This is detrimental to small organizations (SO), for which SM remains an important function. This research contributes to the discipline by a) evaluating the appropriateness of existi...

1 This article demonstrates how Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) impacts on collective marketing among smallholder farmers of southern Africa through increased crop productivity, yields and income. We use a quasi-experimental design to compare outcomes under IAR4D and under two other states namely conventional approach and non-intervention. The study relies on primary da...

The challenges that business face in sustaining competitive advantage in the corporate world have become a major concern. Businesses are adopting cutting-edge technologies and best practices to cope with rapid, global changes. Various business functions are being reengineered for this purpose. Accounting functions play an important role in helping businesses to maintain competitive advantage. H...

The 2-D continuous wavelet transform has been applied to a number of problems in astrophysics. We survey quickly some of these, then focus on two new applications. The first one is the automatic detection and analysis of special objects from the solar corona in the data taken by the EIT instrument aboard the SoHO satellite. The second problem is the detection of gamma sources in the Universe, t...

This paper explores the ways in which adopting national health policy initiatives might appeal to the interest patterns of political leaders. It first introduces a theoretical framework that bridges the concepts of office-keeping and office-seeking to blame avoidance and credit claiming, starting from the assumption that elected officials are systematically interested in the former and therefor...

On behalf of the ERA-EDTA, the NDT Editorial Office is proud to present its new educational journal NDT Plus. As announced in our Editorial Note1 in the July 2007 issue, this new bimonthly journal is designed to enhance, complement and add value to the leading nephrology journal NDT. NDT Plus aims to be an educational and training resource focusing on postgraduate clincial education and topics ...

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations necessary to address climate-related issues are defined, obtained and made available, to all potential users. The Swiss GCOS Office at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss has the task of coordinating all climate relevant measurements in Switzerland (GCOS Switzerland). As s...