Congress’s power of the purse is effective enough to block implementation a policy Congress disagrees with, especially in case foreign policies initiated by presidents. However, it puzzling that congressional deference presidents, instead defiance, has been common. Conventionally, presidents’ informational advantages over have presented as main account for deference. This connotes surrender pre...

Purpose – The present study aims at contributing to the knowledge of organizational communication and cross-cultural female leadership by examining the conflict management strategies between Taiwanese female presidents and their American counterparts in Rotary Clubs. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through field observations and 25 in-depth interviews with 14 Taiwanese female ...

Dovoters reward presidents for increased federal spending in their local constituencies? Previous research on the electoral consequences of federal spending has focused almost exclusively on Congress, mostly with null results. However, in a countyand individual-level study of presidential elections from 1988 to 2008, we present evidence that voters reward incumbent presidents (or their party’s ...

Anthropogenic climate change is inherently a biometeorological issue. As such, it would be reasonably expected that the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB) and its journal, International Journal of Biometeorology (IJB), would have had climate change feature prominently in their activities, articles etc., and to therefore have made a substantial and valuable contribution to the science...

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...

Towards a Smarter Web Wendy Hall, University of Southampton Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, UK, and dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences. She was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007. She was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, a...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly STIMulus Newsletter. STIM (Students for Technology In Medicine) is a new student interest group dedicated to all things tech in medicine. One of our primary goals is to educate ourselves and our peers about all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of medical bio-tech, and come together to discuss the incredible advances that are...