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A new research agenda for managing socio-cultural integration
Post-acquisition socio-cultural integration has received increasing attention from both scholars and practitioners since the early 1990s. During the past decade, research has increasingly focused on emotions and identity in mergers and acquisitions. This chapter introduces the reader to the vibrant research field and its relevance. This section sets the scene for the book, which provides a deeper understanding of how emotions—both positive and negative—as well as values and identity enable a deeper socio-cultural integration after a merger or acquisition, and how leadership plays a crucial role in making it all happen. This chapter also highlights how the Nordic approach to post-acquisition socio-cultural integration refers to a large community of Nordic academics focusing on the softer social and human side of acquisition, often relying on a huge variety of qualitative methods, and to Nordic companies that are not afraid of adopting a more collaborative approach to post-acquisition integration
Exploring molecular variation in Schistosoma japonicum in China
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Ecological distribution conflicts and the vocabulary of environmental justice
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552There is a fundamental clash between economy and the environment due to the growing social metabolism of industrial economies. Energy cannot be recycled. Therefore, the energy from the fossil fuels is used only once, and new supplies of coal, oil, and gas must be obtained from the "commodity extraction frontiers". Similarly, materials are recycled only in part, and therefore, even an economy that would not grow would need fresh supplies of iron ore, bauxite, copper, and paper pulp. The industrial economy is entropic. Meanwhile, permanent "funds" such as aquifers, forests, and fisheries are overexploited, the fertility of the soil is jeopardized and biodiversity is depleted. Thus, the changing social metabolism of industrial economies (including waste disposal such as the excessive production of carbon dioxide) gives rise to growing numbers of ecological distribution conflicts that sometimes overlap with other social conflicts on class, ethnicity or indigenous identity, gender, caste, or territorial rights. The term Ecological Distribution Conflicts (EDC) was coined to describe social conflicts born from the unfair access to natural resources and the unjust burdens of pollution. Such conflicts give birth to movements of resistance, to the point that we can speak already of a global movement for Environmental Justice
Case Report- Spontaneous resolution of delayed onset, posttraumatic high-flow priapism
Priapism is an uncommon but serious condition with major long-term
sequelae. The commoner, ischemicvariety is a medical emergency
requiring immediate intervention in order to avoid erectile
dysfunction. However,the high flow variety is non-ischemic and the
patient may not seek immediate therapy. The options ofmanagement for
this rare, painless form of priapism vary from conservative therapy to
embolization of theinternal pudendal artery or, in some cases, surgery
that may result in subsequent erectile dysfunction. Wepresent a case of
a 24-year-old man who presented with priapism of six-day duration, 10
days after perinealinjury. Doppler ultrasonogram of the penis revealed
a cavernosal artery pseudoaneurysm. Pudendal arteryangiogram done four
days later revealed no leak and the priapism subsided spontaneously
with subsequentreturn of normal erections
A Comparative Study of Effect of Ormeloxifene and Evening Primrose Oil in Treatment of Mastalgia
Synthesis, spectral, thermal analyses, molecular modeling, and antimicrobial activities of Cu(II)-complexes with 1,3,4-oxadiazole Schiff-base derivatives
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