A critical appraisal of the current strategies for the synthesis of enantiopure drugs is presented, along with a systematic background for the computational design of stereoselective porous polymers. These materials aim to achieve the enantiomeric excess of any chiral drug, avoiding the racemic separation. Particular emphasis is given to link statistical mechanics methods to the description of ...

In worldwide organizations, the share of collaborative work is increasing steadily and, in the current global economy, the collaborative work is international in nature. With the availability and increased use of information and communication technologies most of the international collaborative work is electronic-mediated. This exploratory empirical research is an attempt to identify some facto...

[1] Observations of detached subauroral proton arcs by the FUV instrument on the IMAGE spacecraft have been recently reported and shown to be produced by ring current ions precipitating in the afternoon local time sector during geomagnetically disturbed periods. Data from June 18, 2001 show a direct link between a subauroral proton arc and a global observation of a plasmaspheric plume by the IM...

Content analysis on nurses’ perception about the nature of occupational stress was performed in this study to identify emic and etic experiences of occupational stress. Nurses from Hungary, Israel, Italy, U.K., and the U.S., gave their responses in writing to the question: ‘‘What causes you the most stress or anxiety on your job?’’ in the dominant tongue of their country. Results indicate both ...

BACKGROUND Cross-cultural research to examine the cultural validity of diagnostic categories and underlying concepts requires methods that integrate epidemiological and anthropological frameworks. METHOD The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) were used to study 80 psychiatric out-patients with depressive neurosis at a clinic in ...

SETTING Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in Bangladesh, India and Malawi. OBJECTIVE To compare the interval from symptom onset to diagnosis of TB for men and women, and to assess socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness explaining diagnostic delay. DESIGN Semi-structured Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) interviews were administered to 100 or more patients at eac...

Despite the "awakening" to the importance of culture in psychology in America, international psychology has remained on the sidelines of psychological science. The author recounts her personal and professional experience in tandem with the stages of development in international/cross-cultural psychology. Based on her research in cross-cultural personality assessment, the author discusses the in...

Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves have long been thought to contribute significantly the variability of Earth's outer radiation belt because their ability scatter relativistic (>0.5 MeV) electrons into loss cone on short timescales. We investigate statistically such pitch angle scattering signatures (“bite-outs”) and quantitative agreement with cold plasma theory. Our analysis is based...

Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves can cause the scattering loss of relativistic electrons in radiation belt. They be classified into guided mode and unguided mode, according to wave's propagation behavior. The have been widely investigated belt, but observation not expected. Based on observations Van Allen Probes, we demonstrate for first time existence intense L-mode EMIC belt polariz...

This paper examines the current approaches used in the training of intercultural business communication such as cultural patterns and skills, and points out that these approaches mainly reflect the etic or culture-general perspective. What is missing is the emic or culture-specific perspective. In order to promote intercultural research based on both perspectives, this paper details ethnography...