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Analysing spatial interdependence among the 2011 Thailand flood-affected small and medium enterprises for reduction of disaster recovery time period
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ORCID: 0000-0002-2750-8483 (Shubham Pathak).Natural disasters have been a significant hurdle in the economic growth of middle-income developing countries. Thailand has also been suffering from recurring flood disasters and was most which are severely affected during the 2011 floods. This paper aims to identify the various factors that impact the speed of disaster recovery among the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) severely affected by the floods in Pathumthani province in central Thailand, and how it is related to its speed decision of neighbours SMEs. The methodology adopts a spatial econometric model, to analysis and understand each of the chosen factors' impact. The findings include the impact of disaster resilience, mitigation and planning at the SME level as well as the government level. The absence of accurate perception of actual risk, flood insurance and disaster management planning before the 2011 floods had contributed to the severity of the impacts during the 2011 floods
Satellite-retrieved direct radiative forcing of aerosols over North-East India and adjoining areas: climatology and impact assessment
No full textThe article by J. Biswas et al. contained an update in affiliation of author Binita Pathak. The author would like to add another affiliation to her name. Her updated affiliations are the following
Counting mycobacteria in infected human cells and mouse tissue: a comparison between qPCR and CFU
Get PDFDue to the slow growth rate and pathogenicity of mycobacteria, enumeration by traditional reference methods like colony counting is notoriously time-consuming, inconvenient and biohazardous. Thus, novel methods that rapidly and reliably quantify mycobacteria are warranted in experimental models to facilitate basic research, development of vaccines and anti-mycobacterial drugs. In this study we have developed quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays for simultaneous quantification of mycobacterial and host DNA in infected human macrophage cultures and in mouse tissues. The qPCR method cannot discriminate live from dead bacteria and found a 10- to 100-fold excess of mycobacterial genomes, relative to colony formation. However, good linear correlations were observed between viable colony counts and qPCR results from infected macrophage cultures (Pearson correlation coefficient [r] for M. tuberculosis = 0.82; M. a. avium = 0.95; M. a. paratuberculosis = 0.91). Regression models that predict colony counts from qPCR data in infected macrophages were validated empirically and showed a high degree of agreement with observed counts. Similar correlation results were also obtained in liver and spleen homogenates of M. a. avium infected mice, although the correlations were distinct for the early phase (© 2012 Pathak et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Capsus ravana
No full textIsabel ravana (Kirby, 1891) (Figs. 19, 40–43) Capsus ravana Kirby, 1891: 106, plate IV (as new species, DV). Isabel ravana: Pathak 1969: 36 (description of male genitalia); Carvalho & Gross 1979: 515 – 516, 517, 518 (redescription, DV, MG); Schuh 1995: 679 (catalogue); Zheng et al. 2005: 55 – 56 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalogue). Diagnosis. See generic diagnosis. Habitus in dorsal view Figs. 19 and 40. Male genital structures Figs. 41–43. Measurements of Indian specimen table 1. Material examined. INDIA : MANIPUR: 1♂, Ukhrul, 1647 m, 25°06’’. 485’N, 94° 21’’.022’ E., 28.viii.2014, Yeshwanth H.M. leg. MEGHALAYA: 1♂, Jaintia Hills, Jowai, 1297 m, 25°27’’ N, 92° 11’’ E, 11.vi.2013, Yeshwanth H.M. leg. (UASB). Distribution. China, India (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan), Indonesia (Sumatra, Iran Jaya), Myanmar, Philippines Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan.Published as part of Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, pp. 301-322 in Zootaxa 4378 (3) on page 315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/116987
Corrigendum: Proceedings of the 12th annual deep brain stimulation think tank: cutting edge technology meets novel applications
No full textIn the published article, there was an error in the author list and author Sarah-Anna Hescham was erroneously excluded. The corrected author list appears below. “Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez 1*, Christopher J. Rozell 2, Simon Little 3, Huiling Tan 4, Stephen L. Schmidt 5, Warren M. Grill 5,6, Miroslav Pajic 5, Dennis A. Turner 5,6,7, Coralie de Hemptinne 1, Andre Machado 8,9, Nicholas D. Schiff 10, Abbey S. Holt-Becker 11, Robert S. Raike 11, Mahsa Malekmohammadi 12,13, Yagna J. Pathak 14, Lyndahl Himes 14, David Greene 15, Lothar Krinke 16,17, Mattia Arlotti 16, Lorenzo Rossi 16, Jacob Robinson 18,19, Bahne H. Bahners 20,21,22, Vladimir Litvak 23, Luka Milosevic 24,25, Saadi Ghatan 26,27, Frederic L. W. V. J. Schaper 20, Michael D. Fox 20, Nicholas M. Gregg 28, Cynthia Kubu 8, James J. Jordano 29,30,31, Nicola G. Cascella 32, YoungHoon Nho 33, Casey H. Halpern 33,34, Helen S. Mayberg 35,36,37, Ki Sueng Choi 35,36, Haneul Song 35, Jungho Cha 35, Sankaraleengam Alagapan 2, Nico U. F. Dosenbach 38,39,40,41,42,43, Evan M. Gordon 44, Jianxun Ren 45, Hesheng Liu 45,46, Lorraine V. Kalia 47,48, Sarah-Anna Hescham 49,50,51, Dorian M. Kusyk 1, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora 1, Kelly D. Foote 1, Michael S. Okun 1 and Joshua K. Wong 1.” The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.</p
On Measuring the Criticality of Various Variables and Processes in Organization Information Systems: Proposed Methodological Procedure
Get PDFThis paper proposes methodological procedures to be used by the accounting, organizational and managerial researchers and executives to ascertain the criticality of the variables and the processes in the measurement of management control system. We have restricted the validation of proposed methods to the extraction of critical success factors (CSF) in this study. We have also provided a numerical illustration and tested our methodological procedures using a dataset of an empirical study conducted for the purpose of ascertaining the CSFs. The proposed methods can be used by the researchers in accounting, organizational information systems, economics, and business and also in other relevant disciplines of organizational sciences. The main contribution of this paper is the extension of Rockart’s work [33] on critical success factors. We have extended the theory of CSF beyond the initially suggested domain of information into management control system decision making. The methodological procedures developed by us are expected to enrich the literature of analytical and empirical studies in accounting and organizational areas where it can prove helpful in understanding the criticality of individual variables, processes, methods or success factors.Success Factors, Criticality Analysis, Perceptual Criticality, Critical Success Factors
E-Commerce Audit Judgment Expertise: Does Expertise in System Change Management and Information Technology Auditing Mediate E-Commerce Audit Judgment Expertise?
Get PDFA global survey of 203 E-commerce auditors was conducted to investigate the perceptions about the potential determinants of expertise in E-commerce audits. We hypothesize and find evidence indicating that information technology and communication expertise are positively related to expertise in E-commerce audit judgment. We also find that system change management expertise and information technology audit expertise mediate this relationship.E-commerce Audit Judgment, IT Audit, Structural Equations Modeling
Hyalopeplus clavatus Distant 1909
No full textHyalopeplus clavatus Distant, 1909 (Fig. 9) Hyalopeplus clavatus Distant, 1909: 509 – 510 (as new species). Hyalopeplus clavatus: Pathak 1969: 39 (citation from India in PhD); Carvalho & Gross 1979: 479 – 480 (redescription, DV); Schuh 1995: 678 (catalogue), 2002 – 2013 (online catalogue). Diagnosis. Large Hyalopeplus (total length about 10 mm, maximal width across hemelytra 2.8 mm according to Carvalho & Gross, 1979). Globally yellowish orange to ochraceous with reddish or blackish stripes. Pronotal collar transversally striate. Pronotal callosities wide, punctate, devoid of longitudinal reddish zig-zag shaped stripe. Pronotal disk transversally striate on the swollen (median) part of the disk, slightly punctate laterally and posteriorly. Humeral angles pointed, obviously produced, black. Habitus in dorsal view Fig. 9. Material examined. No additional specimen collected by the first author for the present work. Distribution. Species described from Bengladesh, also known from China (Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan), India (Bengal), Indonesia (Java) and Malaysia (Carvalho 1959; Carvalho & Gross 1979).Published as part of Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, pp. 301-322 in Zootaxa 4378 (3) on page 309, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/116987
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