Synthesis of Dimensions Strategic Orientation for Improving Financial Performance Through Organizational Commitment; Empirical Study in Agriculture Bank of Iraq

The current study seeks to analyze the different impacts of alternatives strategic orientation ( customer orientation , competitor orientation and interfunctional coordination ) on financial performance of agricultural bank  of  Al-Qadissya governorate in Iraq , a survey of 80 respondents was used to collect data that were analyzed by SPSS ,  moreover , authors is to test whether the dimensions of strategic orientation have influence on organizational commitment and how to enhancing financial performance , and whether these three dimensions contribute to improve financial performance ,  the findings reveal that the dimensions of strategic orientation ( customer orientation , competitor orientation and interfunctional coordination ) have a significant influence on organizational commitment , but there is one dimension of strategic orientation ( customer orientation ) has   a significant influence on financial performance , whereas the interfunctional coordination has a significant influence on financial performance if tested together with the rest dimensions and organizational commitment  , moreover there is no significant influence between organizational commitment and financial performance ,  this study wants to increase of knowledge based a whole of previous studies so as to provides some insights and original value because this is the first attempt to study alternative strategic orientation and organizational commitment on financial performance in agricultural bank in Iraq , besides this study add some managerial implications for  the board council of the agricultural bank

Coordinating Environmental Genomics and Geochemistry Reveals Metabolic Transitions in a Hot Spring Ecosystem

We have constructed a conceptual model of biogeochemical cycles and metabolic and microbial community shifts within a hot spring ecosystem via coordinated analysis of the “Bison Pool” (BP) Environmental Genome and a complementary contextual geochemical dataset of ∼75 geochemical parameters. 2,321 16S rRNA clones and 470 megabases of environmental sequence data were produced from biofilms at five sites along the outflow of BP, an alkaline hot spring in Sentinel Meadow (Lower Geyser Basin) of Yellowstone National Park. This channel acts as a >22 m gradient of decreasing temperature, increasing dissolved oxygen, and changing availability of biologically important chemical species, such as those containing nitrogen and sulfur. Microbial life at BP transitions from a 92°C chemotrophic streamer biofilm community in the BP source pool to a 56°C phototrophic mat community. We improved automated annotation of the BP environmental genomes using BLAST-based Markov clustering. We have also assigned environmental genome sequences to individual microbial community members by complementing traditional homology-based assignment with nucleotide word-usage algorithms, allowing more than 70% of all reads to be assigned to source organisms. This assignment yields high genome coverage in dominant community members, facilitating reconstruction of nearly complete metabolic profiles and in-depth analysis of the relation between geochemical and metabolic changes along the outflow. We show that changes in environmental conditions and energy availability are associated with dramatic shifts in microbial communities and metabolic function. We have also identified an organism constituting a novel phylum in a metabolic “transition” community, located physically between the chemotroph- and phototroph-dominated sites. The complementary analysis of biogeochemical and environmental genomic data from BP has allowed us to build ecosystem-based conceptual models for this hot spring, reconstructing whole metabolic networks in order to illuminate community roles in shaping and responding to geochemical variability