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Natural Tactics of Organizational Deception
No full text<p><span>Natural Tactics of Organizational Deception</span></p>
Strategic Prominence Management | March 2024
No full text<p>Strategic Prominence Management | Feb 2024</p>
An Overview of the Polymerization of Cyclosiloxanes
No full textLinear polysiloxanes synthesized by both anionic and cationic polymerization of cyclic siloxanes are discussed
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence
No full textIn this paper, we test the hypothesis of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkan Early Neolithic (6250–5300 BC) by applying the method of summed calibrated probability distributions to the set of more than 200 new radiocarbon dates from Serbia. The results suggest that there was an increase in population size after the first farmers arrived to the study area around 6250 BC. This increase lasted for approximately 250 years and was followed by a decrease in the population size proxy after 6000 BC, reaching its minimum around 5800 BC. This was followed by another episode of growth until 5600 BC when population size proxy rapidly declined, reaching the minimum again around 5500 BC. The reconstructed intrinsic growth rate value indicates that the first episode of growth might have been fuelled both by high fertility and migrations, potentially related to the effects of the 8.2 ky event. The second episode of population growth after 5800 BC was probably owing to the high fertility alone. It remains unclear what caused the episodes of population decrease
Expansion of the Neolithic in Southeastern Europe: wave of advance fueled by high fertility and scalar stress
No full text<p>What was the anthropological reality behind the migrations of the first farmers across Europe? How were demography, society, and environment interconnected to give rise to the macroregional expansion pattern that archaeology is revealing? We simulate the demography and spatial behavior of the first farming communities in the Central Balkans in order to infer the parameters and mechanisms of the Neolithic expansion in this part of Europe. We compare the simulation output to the empirical record of radiocarbon dates in order to systematically evaluate which expansion scenarios were the most probable. Our results suggest that if the expansion of the Neolithic unfolded in accord with the specific wave of advance model that we presented in this paper, the expansion was driven by very high fertility and scalar stress. The number of children born by an average Neolithic woman who lived through her entire fertile period was around 8 children or more, which is on the high end of the ethnographically recorded human total fertility rate spectrum. The social structure of the first farming communities was such that it could not accommodate great number of people without generating social tensions caused by the scalar stress. As the most plausible fission threshold values were between 50 and 100 people, which is usually smaller than estimated environmental carrying capacity, it seems that the scalar stress was the primary reason for the community fission and for seeking out new land. This suggest that the Neolithic expansion was driven mainly by social rather than ecological reasons.</p>
Bembix rostrata (L.) (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) de retour en Wallonie (Belgique)
No full textBembix rostrata (L.) n'avait pas été retrouvé en Belgique depuis 1990 mais l'auteur signale deux observations récentes : Terril d'Hensies (Hainaut, 2005) et camp militaire de Lagland (Luxembourg belge, 2006)
Tragédie et éthique : le rôle de la littérature chez Nietzsche
No full text<p>La tragédie grecque a attiré l'attention d'un jeune Nietzsche qui venait de lire Schopenhauer et pour cette raison il lui a consacré son premier grand traité philosophique : La naissance de la tragédie. Cependant, au fil des années, il finit par prendre ses distances avec celui qui en fut le principal auteur et reformule ses préoccupations sous une constellation de concepts originale et bien connue. Mais le rôle qu'il donne à la littérature dans le futur, dans sa philosophie artistique, laisses-en l'air l'occasion de réinterpréter son œuvre de jeunesse, de voir son analyse de la tragédie et du monde grec sans être traversé par les préceptes schopenhaueriens. Cependant, ce qui nous préoccupe ici n'est ni un face à face avec Schopenhauer, ni une connexion thématique entre les différentes étapes de Nietzsche. Il est plutôt destiné.</p>
Impact of Demographic Factors on Deviant Workplace Behavior in the Pakistani Public Organizations
No full textThis study investigated the impact of Demographic factors, i.e., Gender, Marital Status, Education, Experience, Tenure, Level of job and Nature of employment on deviant workplace behaviour (DWB) and under the theoretical support of Social exchange theory, social learning theory and Breach of psychological contract theory. The results were analyzed from a sample of 380 employees from 20 Public organizations, i.e., universities, autonomous bodies and special institutions providing services to promote education and training sector in the Punjab province of Pakistan are selected for the questionnaire survey. SPSS-21 is employed to analyze the quantitative data. Results revealed significant relationship and supported the hypothesized direct impact of demographic factors on deviant workplace behavior in the Pakistani public organization