How uncivil customers corrode the relationship between frontline employees and retailers

This study investigates the effects of customers’ uncivil treatments on frontline retail employees’ emotions, deviant behaviors and relationship with the retail organization. Our theoretical model is based on both marketing and personnel management literatures. 415 frontline retailing American employees answered our questionnaire. Employees treated uncivilly by customers feel angry but have to hide their negative emotions, which leads them to emotional exhaustion and deviant behaviors. Paradoxically, employees’ strong commitment to their retailing organization brings about more deviant behaviors. We propose some managerial strategies to cope with uncivil customers, as well as future research on this important and under-researched topic.     

Individual differences in assessing problem similarity

This paper reports on a study which investigates the potential influence of perceptual differentiation (PD) ability on introductory accounting students' ability to identify and use analogies to solve problems. Accounting students with differing levels of PD ability first studied two sample problems with solutions which provided potential source analogues for analogical transfer. They then attempted to solve two analogous accounting problems differing only in the criteria for identifying problem analogousness. Findings suggest that PD ability may influence a problem solver's ability to identify analogous problems by affecting which problem features (surface or structural) he or she is likely to attend to and use for assessing problem similarity and potential analogousness. The paper concludes by discussing implications for pedagogical practices in accounting.     

New technology and the urban environment

Technology has always had an influence on the form of settlements, but only since the coming of Information Technology has it aroused much interest from academics and planners. The impact that IT is likely to have on urban areas is debated, some foreseeing decentralisation and the end of place, while others see evidence of the centralisation of control in a global economy. Other new technologies may also affect cities as new materials provide the opportunity for different styles of building. As we enter the 21st century, however, we do so with the largest stock of urban capital ever, much of which is ageing and in need of maintenance. Technology is part of a complex interrelationship of influences on urban areas and much of it will have to be retrofitted on to the pre-existing environment.     

Urban sprawl factors in the surface water resource basins of Istanbul

This paper presents the reasons for uncontrolled land-use changes in the water resource basins of Istanbul. These changes are evaluated with a Geographical Information System (GIS), using four Landsat (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005) satellite images. Additional spatial information about capital improvement projects (highways and the Bosporus bridges), industrial land-use decisions, land ownership, and jurisdictional boundaries is also utilized. We observe that the most critical land-use changes have occurred in places with higher accessibility, mostly in close proximity to the metropolitan city center. The literature describes large public capital improvement projects (primarily the Trans European Motorway – TEM) as the primary reason for a trend of illegal occupation of public lands; however, the TEM should not be considered as the sole reason. This study explores other possible causes for these illegal developments in the water resource basins, grouped into three broad dimensions physical, socio–economic–political, and legal. Finally, we put forward possible policy suggestions for the preservation of the limited surface water resource basins in Istanbul.     

ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF POLICY RESTRICTIONS ON WATER WITHDRAWALS FROM SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND SOURCES

The appropriation of water for economic activities is limited by regional surface and underground endowments, and symptoms of environmentally unsustainable withdrawals are already visible in many regions of the world. In this paper we investigate the economic implications of water policy imposing source- and region-specific restrictions on water withdrawals taking the Mexican economy as a case study. We use an inter-regional input–output model of Mexico's hydro-economic regions to allocate production subject to the availability of water and other factors of production. Water sustainability requires a reduction of 7.5?km³/yr of groundwater withdrawals, which is compensated by an increase of 3.4?km³/yr of surface water, an expansion onto an additional 1.4 million hectares of rainfed land, and modifications in subnational patterns of food trade. This framework for evaluating scenarios describing sustainability-oriented water policies is readily applicable to other regions.     

对虾白斑综合征病毒表面抗原基因免疫保护性的研究

将对虾白斑综合征病毒（White Spot Syndrome Virus,W SSV）的VP19、VP28基因融合克隆入pVAX1.0真核表达载体制备成多价 DNA 疫苗,并用构建的 DNA 疫苗制备成饲料免疫实验对虾,用RT-PCR 检测DNA 疫苗在对虾体内的表达,同时比较构建的多价DNA 疫苗与VP19、VP28单价DNA 疫苗对抗W SSV的保护率。结果显示构建的DNA疫苗有抗W SSV免疫保护性,且pVAX1.0-VP19-VP28多价DNA 疫苗保护率高于单价疫苗。     

国有企业治理结构的主要问题研究

我国国有企业治理结构的主要问题是股权过分集中 ,决策政企难分 ;代理成本过高 ,代理效率低下 ;治理结构失衡“内部人控制严重” ;董事会运作失范“新老三会”并存 ,激励约束不健全 ,企业家成长困难。针对这些问题制定完善国企治理结构的对策 ,借鉴外国的经验 ,结合我国的国情 ,创造企业家成长环境 ,使之推动企业的发展 ,推动社会的进步。     

Seretide: a pharmacoeconomic analysis

Abstract

Background: The costs of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the two most common chronic respiratory illnesses, are substantial and rising. The fixed-dose combination of fluticasone and salmeterol has been a safe and effective therapy for these diseases.

Objectives: To review the pharmacoeconomic impact of the fixed-dose combination of inhaled fluticasone and salmeterol in asthma and COPD.

Methods: A systematic review of the literature was carried out to identify pharmacoeconomic studies with fixed-dose salmeterol and fluticasone (Seretide, Advair, Viani). In addition, abstracts from recent respiratory meetings were sought, and any unpublished data were requested from the manufacturer.

Results: For asthma, when compared to treatment with inhaled corticosteroid monotherapy and antileukotrienes, alone or combined, salmeterol/fluticasone inhalation produced a higher proportion of successfully treated weeks, improvement in lung function and quality of life, and fewer treatment failures. The costs per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) for fluticasone/salmeterol have been favourable not only in patients with moderate to severe disease but also in patients with mild disease or patients not previously treated with a maintenance therapy. The excess cost per QALY varied from US$2,670 to US$26,445. For COPD, a clear reduction in exacerbation rates and improvement in quality of life has been demonstrated with salmeterol/fluticasone along with a likely improvement in survival rates. The incremental cost per QALY ratio for fluticasone/salmeterol against placebo ranged from US$9,512 to US$64,038.

Conclusions: The data currently available suggest that the cost effectiveness of combination therapy with fluticasone and salmeterol is favourable for asthma and COPD in a variety of clinical settings.     

凸表面上天线间互耦的射线分析法

本文给出了在电尺寸很大的理想导体光滑凸表面上,无限小磁矩或电矩在空间产生的电磁场的近似渐近解,利用该解可以准确有效地计算凸表面上天线间的互耦。此解中,表面塌沿Keller的表面射线路经传播,且在阴影边界过渡区域,包括对于源的邻城,它们仍然一致适用。除此之外,在给出的解中,通过一个系数T/K给出了关于表面场的表面射线绕曲的影响,其中,T表示表面射线的绕曲,K表示射线方向上的表面曲率。该解是由简单的典型问题的近似解导出的。给出了圆柱面和圆锥面上裂缝间互耦的数字结果,它与实验结果相吻合。     

提高农业资源利用效率 促进现代农业发展

农业资源利用效率直接影响着现代农业发展水平,高效合理地利用农业资源是现代农业发展的重要目标。该文在肯定我国现代农业发展取得举世瞩目成就的同时,从资源供需、资源利用效率及资源持续利用等方面指出了我国现代农业发展中存在的问题,并对如何更好地发挥中国农业资源与区划学会在提高农业资源利用效率、促进现代农业发展中的作用提出了建议。