An experiment was conducted in nine 200-m2 earthen ponds at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand from 17 July 2003 to 3 March 2004 (230 days). The objectives of the study were to assess the feasibility of co-culture of lotus and hybrid catfish in intensively fed ponds, to assess nutrient recovery from feed waste by lotus plants, to assess pond mud characteristics after lotus-fish c...

Sport clubs are considered an ideal setting for the social integration of people with a migration background. However, they can also be place closure practices, where assimilative ideas and ethnic boundaries present. Besides individual characteristics members, adequate club organizational structures relevant preventing facilitating integration. Thus, role might differ between natives Based on d...

Culture and identity lie at the heart of the world’s most intricate security problems. But to what extent are they components of a solution to those problems? How can culture and identity contribute to peace? Increasingly, both analysts and politicians associate regional security with regional integration that encompasses the development of regional identities and a common political culture. To...

We investigated whether, upon the integration of multiple copies of adenovirus type 12 (Ad12) DNA into an established mammalian (hamster) genome, the pattern of foreign DNA insertion would remain stable or change with consecutive passages of cells in culture. By the injection of purified Ad12 into newborn hamsters, tumors were induced, cells from these tumors were cultivated, and five independe...

A framework for the integration of poultry and fish production in the tropics and sub-tropics is proposed. Poultry may be integrated with fish culture in several ways and benefits extend to both. Both poultry production and processing wastes have value as nutrient inputs to fish and the water used for fish culture can be used for evaporative cooling of poultry and fertilization of crops. The co...

Article history: Received 12 December 2008 Received in revised form 13 September 2009 Accepted 21 October 2009 Available online 20 October 2010 Building on a large-scale survey study in Germany and China, this research develops and validates a model of internal variables fostering entrepreneurial orientation. The objective of the research is to understand whether organizational mechanisms, such...

The capability maturity model integration (CMMI) has become one of the most preferred approaches to software process improvement (SPI). However, the amount of discontinued or delayed CMMIdriven SPI projects is considerable. In this paper we investigate the culture embedded in the CMMI and compare it with the cultures within an implementing organization in Scandinavia by utilising the competing ...

TEL systems are reaching societies where they were almost completely unavailable previously. This makes the importance of culture in TEL systems more salient as they need to accommodate an expanding cultural-geographical user base. Indeed it is known that culture has a huge impact on educational expectations and norms, and the way people efficiently learn. However, culture remains a difficult c...

Happiness as a state of mind may be universal, but its meaning is complex and ambiguous. The authors directly examined the relationships between cultural values and experiences of happiness in 2 samples, by using a measurement of values derived from Chinese culture and a measurement of subjective well-being balanced for sources of happiness salient in both the East and the West. The participant...

This article is devoted to investigating the cultural integration of working Vietnamese immigrants in Poland. study approaches as a process lived experience, paying particular attention immigrants’ agency. The migrant group viewed active actors who are able develop motivations for into their host culture or reinforce loyalty original through interactions with new living settings country residen...