Tropical Extra-tropical thermocline water mass exchanges in the community climate model v.3 Part I: the Atlantic Ocean I. Wainer, A. Lazar, and A. Solomon Department of Physical Oceanography, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2 Laboratoire d’Ocanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC), Paris, France 3 National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration-Cooperative Institute Research Envi...

The ability to form cooperative societies may explain why humans and social insects have come to dominate the earth. Here we examine the ecological consequences of cooperation by quantifying the fitness of cooperative (large groups) and non-cooperative (small groups) phenotypes in burying beetles (Nicrophorus nepalensis) along an elevational and temperature gradient. We experimentally created l...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of organizational climate and structure on knowledge management from the social interaction perspective. Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses in a sample of 146 cases. The findings suggest that innovative and cooperative climate is positively related to social interaction; that when the organizational structure is less form...

Global climate change is rife with uncertainties. Yet, we can expect to resolve much of this uncertainty in the next 100 years or so. Therefore, current actions should reflect the value of flexibility. Nevertheless, most models of climate change, particularly game-theoretic models, abstract from uncertainty. Additionally, most analysis of climate change abstracts completely from the idea that t...

the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

Background: Team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. This study compares levels of nursing students’ perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   Methods: In a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design ...

Members are the primary customers and lifeblood of multi-purpose cooperatives. This study aimed to determine extent organizational climate customer relationship management among members a Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Negros Occidental. is anchored Social Exchange Theory Relationship Management theory. The researchers conducted quantitative between November 2021 March 2022 with 347 members. used...