BACKGROUND In Japan, since 2006, participation in a 1-year residency programme by all dentists who have passed the National Board Dental Examination has been mandatory. Therefore, a 'matching system' has become necessary for dental students in their final year to decide their desired residency facility, but the rate of matching in dental schools located in rural areas is still low. Aim : The pr...

The friends-and-neighbors effect, which refers to voters' tendency support politicians near hometown areas, has not yet been tested systematically for party leaders. Linking a built-for-purpose dataset on 266 leaders sample of 380,208 voters from 50 country elections in 19 parliamentary democracies drawn the Comparative Study Electoral Systems (CSES) project, this article examines effect leader...

Extending the theories of social and place identity, we predict that CEO hometown identity has a positive significant influence on firm innovation. Our empirical evidence, from publicly traded firms in China during 2002–2016, suggests whose CEO's is same province or city as firm's headquarters tends to invest more R&D generate patent applications. results are robust fixed effects use difference...

â  â  â€˜eghterab’ in iraqi emigrants' poetry: the case of ahmad matar â â â jafar delshad * â seyyed adnan eshkewaree ** â  â abstractâ  the word ‘eghterab’ in human sciences has different concepts which could be classified into three groups: 1) westernization and tending to western culture or being alien with eastern authenticity 2) nostalgia and homesickness caused by being away f...

fMRI is increasingly implemented in the clinic to assess memory function. There are multiple approaches to memory fMRI, but limited data on advantages and reliability of different methods. Here, we compared effect size, activation lateralisation, and between-sessions reliability of seven memory fMRI protocols: Hometown Walking (block design), Scene encoding (block design and event-related desig...

Based on upper echelons and self-categorization theories, this study empirically examines the relationship between CEO-top management team (TMT) overseas experience differences firm performance moderating effects of hometown connectedness, ownership nature, environmental dynamics. We use data Chinese manufacturing listed companies from 2012 to 2021. The results show that CEO-TMT significantly n...

Abstract This article deals with the oft-debated identification of Moresheth Gath, mentioned in book Micah as prophet’s hometown. Based on comprehensive analysis texts from early Christian period, Amarna archive and Micah, authors claim for first time that Gath is to be identified Azekah, economically strategically important site western Shephelah. »Moresheth Gath« was old name before becoming ...