Wearable computers, embedded in clothing or seamlessly integrated in devices we carry with us, have a tremendous advantage to become the main gateway to personal health management. Current stateof-the-art devices allow to monitor basic physical or physiological parameters. Applications include e.g. improving performance in sports, early fall detection for elderly people, long-term heart monitor...

Too often, the examination of the work of a major intellectual figure occurs in an historical vacuum. History has two meanings. One sense is obviously that of the social, political, and economic context within which a specific theoretical development takes place. Would Keynes have written The General Theory had England not suffered economic difficulties following World War I and had the capital...

We show that a one-sector real business cycle model with mild increasing returns-to-scale, variable capital utilization and saddle-path stability is able to produce qualitatively realistic business cycles driven solely by disturbances to government purchases. Due to an endogenous increase in labor productivity, a positive spending shock can lead to simultaneous increases in output, consumption,...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the leadership styles and the organizational performance among the Malaysian Public Universities (IPTA) academic leaders in Klang Valley Area. In the recent years, the roles of academic leaders have been identified as crucial to the success of any higher education academic institutions. This study is a quantitative research and in...

Simple grazing models with two herbivores are used to assess the effects of pasture pests on stability and productivity of continously-growing pastures. Algebraic and graphical methods are also presented for estimating losses from pasture pests at different stocking rates directly, from data on productivity/stocking rate relationships. Pests are considered as competing grazing herbivores and de...

Based on uncertainty management theory [Lind, E. A., & Van den Bos, K., (2002). When fairness works: Toward a general theory of uncertainty management. In Staw, B. M., & Kramer, R. M. (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 24, pp. 181–223). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.], two studies tested whether a management style depicting situational uncertainty moderates the relationship between ab...

the purpose of this study is evaluating the impact of organizational culture and leadership style on knowledge management considering the mediating role of technology acceptance. the hypotheses were tested against the data collected from a sample of 54 manufacturing companies in qazvin province, using the variance based structural equations modeling (partial least square technique) and path ana...

introduction: identification of the styles of behavior management as related to job attitudes and satisfaction level of management has been among the topics of interest in the past few decades. this study aimed to examine the leadership styles of managers (heads) and its correlation with job satisfaction among university employees. methods: the study population included all employees working at...

kambeiz talebi, the author of the article discusses the urgent needfor topmanagers to change their style in small entrepreneurial firms during a business life cycle. although most leadership theories assume that it is an easy task, but the case studies and practical experience suggest the opposite - managers find it hard to move from an innovative style when the company is young to taskoriente...