This paper addresses the nature of corporate organizations, their “competences” and “capabilities” and their learning patterns. The analysis is undertaken at different levels of observations – ranging from firm-level studies of the patterns of technological and organizational change all the way to broad cross-national comparisons.1 The analysis of the nature of corporate organizations, their “c...

We monitored the ranging of a wild European badger (Meles meles) population over 7 years using GPS tracking collars. Badger range sizes varied seasonally and reached their maximum in June, July and August. We analysed the summer ranging behaviour, using 83 home range estimates from 48 individuals over 6974 collar-nights. We found that while most adult badgers (males and females) remained within...

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing alternative navigation concepts to maintain operational capacity and efficiency even in the presence of a degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS). One concept being studied for this alternate position navigation and timing (APNT) is a ground based passive ranging system. Such a system can achieve many benefits. It has few cap...

background: as consumption of chicken meat may be as one of the sources of human infection, this study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of t. gondii in farm chickens ( gallus gallus domesti­cus ) in shiraz, southern iran. methods: two hundred and thirty one blood samples were collected from farm chickens by a cluster ran­dom sampling method and tested for toxoplasmosis by indirect flu...