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Finance information systems usage in universities in a developing country : Implementing factors and their influence on use

Finance information systems (FISs) store and provide timely, accurate and consistent financial data for management and decision-making. Many organizations especially in developing world however fail to attain desired success during implementation and usage of the FISs despite the fact that many success factors for implementation have been suggested. This study thus investigated the usage of FISs w

How women entrepreneurs build embeddedness : a case study approach

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine how women entrepreneurs are building embeddedness into male-gendered fields and how they are creating embedding in such fields in practice.Design/methodology/approachThe qualitative methodology and three indicative case stories within gastronomic industry are illustrated and analysed.FindingsThe contribution of this study lies in the examination of th

Highly Dynamic Drives for Electric Hybrid Vehicles : Electric Machine Design and Dynamic Test Method

Electric Hybrid Vehicles (EHVs) play a crucial role in the development towardsa more environmental friendly transportation. An alternative to solve someactual challenges with hybridization of vehicles is studied at the Division ofIndustrial Electrical Engineering and Automation (IEA) at Lund Universityin cooperation with the automotive industry. A key component of this drivetrain is a highly dynam

Evaluation of a city logistics business model: Impact of cost, revenue and goods flow on profitability

Purpose Many city logistics initiatives have failed to become economically sustainable. The purpose of this paper is to explain the impacts of cost, revenue and goods flow variables on the economic performance of a business model for city logistics. Design/methodology/approach A cost/benefit analysis, with data from transport providers and the municipality, on a six-month pilot implementation of a

The city logistics-based business model: a series of components

PurposeEmpirical studies show that 96% of the city logistics projects failed to become permanent, mainly due to the lack of sustainable business models (Quak et al., 2014; Malhene et al., 2012). Accordingly, it was concluded that the need of business model specifically designed for city logistics is high (Benjelloun, 2010). However, researchers have yet to describe the components and their interre

Married with Children : The Family Status of Female Agricultural Labourers at Two Southwestern Farms in the 1830s and 1840s

While female factory workers and agricultural servants were primarily young and single, female agricultural labourers were more likely to be middle-aged, married mothers. This paper examines the female labourers at two south-western farms and finds that middle-aged married women account for the majority of days worked. Widows and mothers of illegitimate children account for only a small fraction o

Labourers at the Oakes : Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Labourers at a Farm near Sheffield during the Agricultural Revolution

The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employmen

An Investigation of the Male-Female Wage Gap in Industrial Revolution Britain

During the industrial revolution women's wages were substantially lower than men’s. This article documents the wage gap and shows that in most cases it can be explained without reference to wage discrimination. First, the wage data we have overestimate the wage gap; correcting for biases due to measurement error reduces the size of the wage gap. Second, because differences in productivity were sub

Visions of Post-Independence India in Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentaries

This article studies two post-war documentary films set in India, Indian Village (1951) and The Wind and the River (1953), directed by the celebrated Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff. While many scholars have studied these films in relation to Sucksdorff’s biography and Swedish national cinema, less emphasis has been placed on these Indian documentaries in relation to other international documentThis article studies two post-war documentary films set in India, Indian Village (1951) and The Wind and the River (1953), directed by the celebrated Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff. While many scholars have studied these films in relation to Sucksdorff’s biography and Swedish national cinema, less emphasis has been placed on these Indian documentaries in relation to other international document

Mindfulness based flourishing program: A cross-cultural study of Hong Kong Chinese and British participants

The Mindfulness Based Flourishing Program (MBFP) is an online 8-week intervention developed for enhancing wellbeing with the use of mindfulness practices, through targeting a range of positive variables. The efficacy of the MBFP has been demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial, and in order to further establish it as an intervention with widespread application, cross-cultural validation is w

Bacillus subtilis citM, the structural gene for dihydrolipoamide transsuccinylase: cloning and expression in Escherichia coli

The 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex is composed of three different subenzymes: 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (E1o), dihydrolipoamide transsuccinylase (E2o), and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3). Bacillus subtilis E1o and E2o are encoded by the citK and citM genes, respectively. A 3.4-kb BamHI DNA fragment containing citK and citM markers was isolated from a library of B. subtili

Genetic and biochemical characterization of Bacillus subtilis mutants defective in expression and function of cytochrome b-558

Bacillus subtilis succinate dehydrogenase is bound to the cytoplasmic membrane by cytochrome b-558, a 23-kDa transmembrane protein which also functions as electron acceptor to the dehydrogenase. The structural gene for the apocytochrome, sdhC, has previously been cloned and sequenced. In this work the structure and translation of cytochrome b-558 was studied in different sdhC mutants. Mutant cytoc

Nucleotide sequence encoding the flavoprotein and the iron-sulfur protein subunits of the Bacillus subtilis PY79 succinate dehydrogenase complex

The nucleotide sequence of a 2.7-kilobase segment of DNA containing the sdhA and sdhB genes encoding the flavoprotein (Fp, sdhA) and iron-sulfur protein (Ip, sdhB) subunits of the succinate dehydrogenase of Bacillus subtilis was determined. This sequence extends the previously reported sequence encoding the cytochrome b558 subunit (sdhC) and completes the sequence of the sdh operon, sdhCAB. The pr