Psychological Factors Determining Individual Compliance with Rules for Common Pool Resource Management: The Case of a Cuban Community Sharing a Solar Energy System

This study focuses on individuals' subjective reasons for complying with rules for common pool resource management. We examine the topic of individual rule compliance, which the commons literature has addressed only marginally, and outline recent empirical findings. Hypotheses are derived based on rule compliance theory and explored using data gathered in a Cuban community sharing a solar energy system. The statistical analyses reveal that compliance with rules for energy management is influenced by various factors. Depending on the particular rule, factors such as sanctioning, legitimacy, and compatibility, among others, influence the frequency of individual rule compliant behavior to differing extent

Plantas exóticas invasoras o potencialmente invasoras que crecen en ecosistemas naturales y seminaturales de la provincia Holguín, región nororiental de Cuba

Se realiza un inventario de las especies de plantas exóticas que han sido localizadas en ecosistemas naturales y seminaturales de la provincia Holguín basados en 10 años de trabajo de campo. La mayoría de las 86 especies que hasta la fecha han sido registradas son oriundas del viejo mundo. Se muestra el listado de las plantas encontradas, así como datos relacionados con su localización dentro de la provincia y los tipos de vegetación que han colonizado.A checklist of the alien plant species of the province Holguín, Eastern Cuba, is made based in 10 years of field work. So far 86 species of exotic plants have been found; most of them native from the Old World. Data regarding its localization in the province and the kinds of vegetation these plants already colonized is provided

The Recycling and Transcytotic Pathways for IgG Transport by FcRn are Distinct and Display an Inherent Polarity

The Fc receptor FcRn traffics immunoglobulin G (IgG) in both directions across polarized epithelial cells that line mucosal surfaces, contributing to host defense. We show that FcRn traffics IgG from either apical or basolateral membranes into the recycling endosome (RE), after which the actin motor myosin Vb and the GTPase Rab25 regulate a sorting step that specifies transcytosis without affecting recycling. Another regulatory component of the RE, Rab11a, is dispensable for transcytosis, but regulates recycling to the basolateral membrane only. None of these proteins affect FcRn trafficking away from lysosomes. Thus, FcRn transcytotic and recycling sorting steps are distinct. These results are consistent with a single structurally and functionally heterogeneous RE compartment that traffics FcRn to both cell surfaces while discriminating between recycling and transcytosis pathways polarized in their direction of transport

Creating and Validating a New Survey Instrument to Understand the Effect of Positive Deviance on Minority Leadership in Healthcare Organizations

Background and Purpose of the Study: Over the last few decades, the United States has experienced an overwhelming amount of change in the diversity of its populations (Kilian, Hukai, & McCarty, 2005). Although it was expected that this diversity would also become evident in senior leadership positions across organizations, this has not yet happened (Kilian et al., 2005). “For years men have dominated Corporate America as women have traditionally chosen to become stay at home mothers’ and ‘housewives. In an effort to rise to the level of their male counterparts, many women have been moving out of the home and into the boardrooms, through educating themselves” (Dean, Mills-Strachan, Roberts, Carraher, & Cash, 2009, p. 2 ). This statement begins to lay the groundwork needed to address the issues found by Kilian et al. Methods: This study utilized a non-experimental quantitative methodology with a survey driven, exploratory, descriptive, correlative and cross-sectional research design to understand the effect of positive deviance on minority leadership in healthcare organizations under the framework of positive deviance implementing two sub-constructs of managing diversity and cultural competence. Results: Reliability on the PoDeMLA with both independent variables of Managing Diversity and Cultural Competence was very good (Cronbach’s alpha α = .83). Individually, for each construct of the PoDeMLA, the reliability ranged from acceptable to good: Managing Diversity (α = .80), Cultural Competence (α = .74). Similarities noted for senior leaders and middle managers were found in the family influence and advancements sub-constructs of managing diversity. Similarities noted for senior leaders and middle managers were found in the acculturation and cultural sensitivity sub-constructs of cultural competence. Differences noted between senior leaders and middle managers were noted in the socioeconomics, educational considerations and mentor relationships sub-constructs of managing diversity. Differences noted between senior leaders and middle managers were noted in the cultural imposition, discrimination and stereotyping sub-constructs of cultural competence. Results of the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) across both constructs resulted in cultural competence demonstrating significance (p= .032) and managing diversity demonstrating non-significance (p= .543) both at an alpha level of .05. Conclusion: Implementation of Bandura’s social cognitive theory across the managing diversity construct of positive deviance could re-balance the non-significance of the construct on it’s own. Cultural competence demonstrated significance across both leadership types and continuation of study should be considered

Implementation of e-Inclusion in public libraries : a case study of Tallinn Central Library

Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL)This study aims to explore the e-Inclusion concept from the librarians’ point of view and analyse how Tallinn Central Library (TCL) has implemented it in order to ensure an inclusive digital society that provides opportunities for all its users. Two e-Inclusion programmes launched by TCL were analysed. (Training courses for elderly people and Training courses for jobseekers). This research is a single-case study and follows a qualitative approach. Purposive sampling was used. Thus, participants selected were management staff of TCL and directors of seventeen branch libraries in Tallinn. The methods used for the collection of data were documentary analysis, written interviews and semi-structured interviews, containing questions constructed according to the issues related with the literature review and programmes mentioned above. The interviewees’ responses provide detailed information about the performance of the training courses as well as the motivations of trainers and trainees and strengths and weaknesses among other relevant issues. The interviews were analysed using description analysis. From the results of the thesis it can be concluded that, despite the fact that of Estonia is known as a leading country in terms of ICT, there are still many groups of the population excluded from the benefits offered by the digital information society, among them are elderly people and people who have lost their employment in the wake of the economic crisis of the recent years. A big part of the members of this latter group do not have the needed IT skills to find a new job and required for the modern Estonian society, and a considerable number of them belong to the Russian-speaking community. Therefore, they have language barriers and it makes even more difficult for them to overcome the digital divide. In order to remediate the above issues the work that TCL is doing to reduce the digital divide includes training courses for these groups of people can gain skills using computers

Cognitive Capital and its Profitability

Transformation of competition in cognitive capitalism makes the creation and increment values on the basis of intangible assets - knowledge, developments and ideas. The knowledge economy is becoming a significant resource of scientific and technical knowledge, which is made on the basis of a new form of capital - cognitive capital. Due to lack of development of a new type of economic system, formalization remains low. The concept of cognitive capitalism recognizes the predominant form of accumulation by misappropriation and exploitation of knowledge. The article analyzes the current economic processes in terms of the transition to a knowledge-based economy. At the article is been made the attempt of the scientific definition of cognitive capital. Have done an example of return on cognitive capital. The cognitive component of the national capital identifies monopolistic competition, that is competition for new ideas it promotes the search for new combinations, new applications, new knowledge, which reduces the overall price level. Of course, initially these new developments costs are included in the price structure, and initial development can be costly enough, but as the general price level is reduced scale. That is, this new application is possible more resource-saving, it allows you to receive the overall economy and thus contribute to lower prices

Agency culture, constitutional provisions and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis

Substantial and systematic cross-country variation in entrepreneurship rates has been found in vari- ous studies. We attempt to explain such differences focusing on the interaction between institutional factors and population psychological characteristics. Constitutional provisions supporting economic freedom are our measure of the institutional context, whereas we proxy psychological characteristics with a country’s endowment of agency culture. We apply an IV-GMM treatment to deal with endoge- 20 neity to a data set comprising 86 countries over the period 2004–2013, and we control for de facto vari- ables and other factors that are likely to influence entrepreneurship. Our results demonstrate that agency culture is indeed an important predictor of entrepreneurship and that this effect is moderated by constitutional provisions supporting economic freedom. In particular, the impact of agency culture on entrepreneurship becomes stronger as a country expands the constitutional protection of eco- 25 nomic rights